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Jan Eide's picture

The Art of Scrap

Can car wrecks and scrap be art? I think so.. but how good art it is depends on the eye of the beholder and the artist. I don`t know how good or bad my attempt of getting art photography out of those wreckages is. So I hope you can help me get a clue. Anyways this is from the famous Car Cemetery in Båstnäs, Sweden. Not to long a drive from Norway where I live. But deep deep in the totally dark woods. No people there from 20.00 to midnight when I was working with lightpainting. A large and difficult area to move between all the scrap metal and car parts and wrecks everywhere in the pitch dark.Moving around with a headlight and flashlight I got about 20 something lightpainted photos. An outherworldly experience this place. This has been on my bucketlist for several years, this car graveyard with close to 1000 car wrecks. Many cars are slowly beeing "eaten" up by mother earth. Cars from the 40`s up to the 80`s are laid to rest here.These cars was used for customers to self pick parts for their own cars. Mainly Norwegians who at that time had heavy customs, came over to pick cheap parts from the Swedish brothers Ivanssons.

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