The car you mention is a Peugeot 203 from the early 60s I think.
I have just spattered it with paint to make something of an aged effect as it's part of my 1/43 scale diecast car collection which I am making into a minature junkyard for photographic purposes.
All part of my exploration of car culture and personal automobile history (when I was a kid I had a very destructive nature with regard to my toy cars) so I'm trying to recapture and re-appropriaate the boy that I was by repeating this childhood activity to a rather intense and perhaps obsessive level. An attempt at altering my reality I suppose in order to find material for art purposes and address my retrogresive psychopathology.
You know, I once had a boyfriend who was really into building model cars & he collected the die cast miniatures as well, so I know all what goes into it, and why you do what you do. And, that's probably the reason why I'm into doing beaded cars with such detail... :D
Anyways, I think this type of hobby is definitely an art. Keep it up! I'm gonna add your blog to my Google reader.
Also, ever been to Autoworld in Brussels?? I'm headed over to London in Nov. for a visit, and I think I'm gonna go check that place out for a day trip... might give me some inspiration... :D
What is there new to say about car culture that hasn't already been said? My intention with this blog is to address this question in consideration of my own personal history and experience of the motor car. Looking at cars I have owned and other car history within my family. Searching the internet for car statistics and relevant contextual information, referencing publications on car culture with particular reference to Autopia: Cars and Culture - Edited by Peter Wollen and Joe Kerr (Reaktion 2002) - Vrrooom! Vrrooom! Hans Aarsman (NAi Uitgevers - Nederlands Fotomuseum 2003) amongst others.
To some degree this excercise is inspired by my love/hate relationship with the automobile; The costs and other traumas of running a car, a nostalgia for a "Golden age of Motoring" which I am too young to have experienced firsthand, the desire and passion associated with cars (including explorations of Classic car ownership), notions of personal space associated with the car (Road Rage), ephemera, in particular finding uses (in an art context) for the materials I have accumulated over the years which link directly with car culture, other artists with a particular interest in the subject and other stuff I may find along the way.
Using these materials and following threads explored in previous works (particularly "The A-Z of Anger Management") I shall attempt to create a body of work, including: Photography, Video, Digital Images, Model making and set building and maybe even a bit of essay writing!
In part this is an exploration of a personal psychogeography of car culture, using my 1950 Geographers map of Birmingham to guide me I shall drift along the highways and byways.
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This is cool! Did you make this?? And, was it previously a black cab?? :D
Also, thanks for stoppin by today:) Yes, I'm makin a Triumph GT6. Glad U like it. Please stop by again sometime. Cheers from Boston=:)
Hi there LB, thanks for dropping by again.
The car you mention is a Peugeot 203 from the early 60s I think.
I have just spattered it with paint to make something of an aged effect as it's part of my 1/43 scale diecast car collection which I am making into a minature junkyard for photographic purposes.
All part of my exploration of car culture and personal automobile history (when I was a kid I had a very destructive nature with regard to my toy cars) so I'm trying to recapture and re-appropriaate the boy that I was by repeating this childhood activity to a rather intense and perhaps obsessive level. An attempt at altering my reality I suppose in order to find material for art purposes and address my retrogresive psychopathology.
Also great fun trashing toy cars!
Cheers
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You know, I once had a boyfriend who was really into building model cars & he collected the die cast miniatures as well, so I know all what goes into it, and why you do what you do. And, that's probably the reason why I'm into doing beaded cars with such detail... :D
Anyways, I think this type of hobby is definitely an art. Keep it up! I'm gonna add your blog to my Google reader.
Also, ever been to Autoworld in Brussels?? I'm headed over to London in Nov. for a visit, and I think I'm gonna go check that place out for a day trip... might give me some inspiration... :D
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