Fast Car (Allegories of Capital), 2007-8

40 photomontages form an allegorical narrative about encounters. Each montage contains four parallel visual sequences: (1) passenger window: tourists encounter indigenous tribes of the Philippine Rice Terraces, as captured in public snapshots on Flickr; (2) rearview mirror: the kiss from Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo"; (3) side mirror: earth morphs into the Death Star from George Lucas' "Star Wars"; (4) Cadillac car as unchanging Western framing device.

Supported in part by a Fellowship and Residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Published in "Intimate", Shifter Vol. 11, 2008, Sreshta Premnath and Steven Lam, Editors