Invasive Species re-visualizes cars as creatures—feral, grotesque, inscrutable. Consider it conceptual documentation. It’s also a record of nearly every car trip I’ve taken since 2014. When I’m in a car, I shoot cars.
To be clear, the gas-powered car is an Invasive Species that we introduced and have allowed to aggressively consume, pollute, and dominate where and how we live. While they remain a prominent excuse to stay reliant on fossil fuels they mask the power and greed that corporate profit holds over the situation. As is, these beasts are a considerable vehicle for disaster. They get us from place to place, but where are we really going? The environmental impact of the status quo is dire. We are fossil fuel-ish.
Ask why public transit plans are sabotaged by the likes of the Koch brothers whose extraordinary wealth is dependent on the sale of petroleum products.
This series is ongoing.