HArd Luck

This body of work examines how my childhood and adolescent experiences with hot rod culture were shaped through the post-industrial atmosphere and economic hardships of the “Rust Belt” region.   Viewing the setting and the automobile as signs of a times since forgotten, the work attempts to translate how the slow economic regenerative process of the “Rust Belt” region assimilates into the reconstruction of derelict cars within the culture.  Each image is a location that represents the regenerative process from start to finish; collapse, decay, reassemble, and complete.