A car that has stopped running. Out of petrol?

Boys play with cars. Small boys play with battery driven cars, while big boys need petrol for theirs. Which is slowly running out (some claim). This RC mini had definitely stopped running anyway, battery or not, so what could I make of it. It was my guess that the cars very young owner would appreciate simple and absurd humour, so I asked one of my assistants to model a really fat guy that tried to squeeze himself out of the car. It’s fun to give over control like that, and very healthy for an artist to do that. Allowing other people to make some of the decisions in the creative process opens up fresh interpretations that you wouldn’t have thought of yourself, and they might not even be aware of.

No more driving for Vince.

I think Rachel was aiming for the Michelin man, but to me the fat little man looked much more like an ancient fertility figure or other stone age carving, apart from having the wrong sex of course, and riding a mini. But why not re-imagine the toy as one of few traces of a lost civilization. Maybe our future descendants will make car figures to remember and bring back the happy days when man didn’t have to walk with his own legs just because he wanted to get somewhere, and could get just as fat as he liked without it impeding his life the least.

Archaeology of the future.

Object no. 49