Park and Ride was intentionally made to capture the essence of chaos and beauty through decay. The attraction of materialism and thrill that has millions standing in line without the ability to foresee the future. With bright flashes and cracks of steel, the smell of grease, and acceleration. The composition of this piece resembles a post-apocalyptic amusement park, what was once fully operated and well lit, now remains in heaps of metal, wire, and dust. Industrial machines are orphans, now lost in the pollution of our own grandiosity. Like most ‘things’ we possess as humans, eventually break, and are discarded or left to rust from the foundation up, truly putting a wrench in the spoke of steampunk’s gears. Abandoning the American dream, and moving on to the next adaptation culture and technology can muster. Our perception of the great inventor is now an ecosystem of its own. We all live in pollution recycling the past. I have always found beauty in recycling found material in my work, the values of texture and shape are strong and original. To give purposeful, yet broken inanimate objects feelings of their own
Park and Ride by Nick Paradis | Rock, Paper, Scissors | Mosaic Art Collective
