Auto Racing as Existential Thought
Auto Racing as Existential Thought is a personally developed philosophy for my art practice, being a relentless inquiry into the nature of existence, coupled with a simultaneous fear and longing for death. By immersing myself in the subculture of the automotive and motorsports world, I'm trying to articulate and confront overwhelming despair, the void of uncertainty, internal/external questioning, and my mortality with each passing moment.
Utilizing an achromatic palette of black and white, I navigate the complexities of life, with each color serving as a symbolic expression of my inner turmoil. Black represents death, dread, and the void, while white offers a stark contrast to convey the depths of my uncertainty. Like a checkered flag waving at the finish line, the use of black and white switches back and forth in my work like the binary representations of good and evil, right or wrong, and victory or defeat.
