Ecto-1

"Everybody can relax, I found the car"

Headphones recommended.

The Ecto 1 was the first car that appeared in cinema that caught my eye. It's undeniably recognisable, the long white body, damaged paint job, flashing nights and the unmistakable siren. It played an essential role in all the films - as it was used to carry the GB and their ghost-capturing equipment through New York City.

Cinema Cars is a series of digital artworks that depict famous automobiles from cinematic history and immortalise them inside a glass terrarium within a museum space. The environment the vehicle is situated in is just as important - a thriving ecosystem with hidden references from the movie scattered throughout - an abstract depiction of a scene from the world within the movie.

I like many resorted to watching movies as a means to escape the reality of being confined to my apartment over the past year. Cinema is a simple but powerful tool that allows us to forget our daily troubles by getting lost in the stories and worlds that are depicted.

The series plays on that revelation, and also represents a metaphorical aspect to it, with the glass case being an outward manifestation of our confined living situations and the inside environment being the world we create for ourselves