Abandonment Issues

I have a real fascination with things that are abandoned. Things that otherwise would be so full of life, and motion and presence. Like houses, theme parks, and these cars. It feels sad, sometimes. It feels spooky 99% of the time. In this case, I think it is beautiful.

I found these on the photographers website: http://www.peterlippmann.com/

These images blew me away. The color of the vehicles themselves, the style of each car, the level of decomposition and rust is different in each, and beautiful. The contrast between earth/life and the industrial metal and glass is neat. The color contrast in the photos with the red and blue cars is just brilliant. The photography itself is very interesting, the composition almost feels posed, like these cars were modeling, and the editing on the photos makes them feel fantastical - like they were part of a fairy tale. The time period of these cars and the amount of growth on them tells a story I think. But what is that story? How long have they been there? Where were these cars going when they were abandoned by their passengers? Why were they abandoned, or were they abandoned at all? Maybe there was a house there once, and that too was taken over by ivy. What will happen to them over more time? What lives inside of them now?

I'd like to imagine something as mystical and fantasized as a little world of fairies making their kingdom inside of these, not unlike FernGully, or the more widely known remake of FernGully, Avatar. 

Or maybe a wonderful family of forest creatures, maybe animals of all different species who rebelled from their clans and found a misfit family life style within the crevices of one of these cars. I'm picturing puppets.

Maybe its a thriller, and the passengers were hi-jacked, or kidnapped, and these cars are the last proof of their existence, and even that is starting to be eaten up by the wild. Maybe the horror story takes place within the car, and the car is then left as it will be part of evidence.

Could be a love story between a man and a woman who meet driving on a long winding road in the middle of no where and when they eventually pull over to meet, they take off together in one car, the other left behind.

Or perhaps its a tragedy between a car and a man, and when the man sold her or was gone for any reason, the car went to find him and never did.

They always say a picture is worth a thousand words. What would those 1,000 words be to you? It astonishes me how many different ideas can come from the same source when multiple people are looking at it from their point of view. What inspires you to imagine, create, write, design, draw, express?

Considering new ideas,

DML