Bailey Florence

AUTOSCAPE: an environment dominated by the motor vehicle. Sprawling across cities, these built landscapes are hostile to life.

Perpetual construction and expansion of infrastructure reveals a futility of the Autoscape, where illusory promises of innovative efficiency are undermined by reality. Oppressive automotive architectures construct unnavigable wastelands all around us, restricting human autonomy and eroding relationships between people and place. These monuments of neoliberal conquest exude a concrete permanence, yet I am invested in their impermanence: design lifespans ensure their inevitable decay and decline - towards a world beyond the Autoscape.

Engaged in constant fieldwork, my practice seeks to understand the sensory, spatial, and kinetic realities experienced by interlopers in the Autoscape. I walk and ride deep into these zones, recording visual, thermal, audio, and sensory data. My art is the material result of this fieldwork, digital image and data treated with the sensibilities of drawing and printmaking.