Abstract Autos

Abstract Autos grew out of me looking at familiar machines with unfamiliar attention. I’ve loved cars for as long as I can remember, but this project isn’t about machines in motion or the culture that surrounds them. It’s about form, colour, light, and the way an object reveals itself when you ask it to sit still. I set out to explore the automobile as a sculptural presence, something shaped by engineering but capable of carrying emotion, history, and memory. A supercar’s taut line under harsh sun, the softened curve of a classic weathered by decades, the strange poetry of reflections across metal: these became my subjects. Instead of treating cars as symbols of speed or status, I approached them as abstract objects, fragments of design waiting to be rediscovered. Each image in this book comes from that process of slowing down and seeing differently. The work here is less about documentation and more about distillation—finding the essence of a curve, the tension of a surface, or the quiet drama in a patch of colour. In that sense, every photograph is a small collaboration between artist, machine, and time. This project taught me to appreciate the automobile not just as something built to move, but as something capable of being contemplated. If these images carry any meaning, I hope it’s simply the invitation to look again, and to find new beauty in what might otherwise pass by unnoticed.