JAMES REEVE

Artist's Statement:

This series of images were mostly shot in New Mexico and Corsica, both places have stunning landscapes and often extraordinary cloud formations.

I was travelling through New Mexico and began noticing more and more abandoned cars, often right by the side of the road but sometimes in the middle of a field or in a place seemingly inaccessible to a car.

I enjoyed imagining how they came to have arrived at this, their final resting place. . . were they simply forgotten over time or intentionally abandoned in the wild.

Now they had begun their final journey, of being reclaimed by nature: the structure slowly decaying as paint, rubber and fabric are stripped away, revealing pastel tones and raw metal as the cars naked form is left exposed to the elements.