This series was created while on a month-long artist residency in the Aboriginal community of Parnngurr in Western Australia in 2017. Abandoned cars in Parnngurr return to the land. Cars are primarily made of steel and the Pilbara is the place where a lot of steel comes from. The local iron ore is mined, shipped off to China, they make it into steel, the Japanese buy it, make it into cars, the cars are imported into Australia and driven until they are inoperable and then they are left to decay and return to the land. It is a strange lifecycle that takes place on a global stage.

We have painted zoomorphic car branding onto the surfaces of abandoned cars found in the outskirts of the community. The vehicles lie about the landscape conjuring up National Geographic-like impressions of deceased megafauna. Our psychological combobulation of technology and animate objects is brought to the fore through painting animal inspired car branding onto these steel carcasses.