Cabin Lines

Paper collage
70 × 100 cm
2025

From the series: “The Backseat Gaze.” The Backseat Gaze is an exploration of perspective, memory, and the restless anticipation of the journey. In a car, the driver’s focus is fixed on the road, while the passenger in the back is free to dream. To “gaze from the backseat” is to exist in a state of pure observation—where the world is not a map, but a sequence of textures, colors, and motion-blurred forms rushing past the glass.

This series of five layered paper collages was inspired by the film Drift, which begins with a family’s urgent midnight escape from the city. As an artist deeply connected to board sports, I feel a strong affinity with this pursuit of a lifestyle defined by flow and motion. These works capture the “in-between” moments where that lifestyle begins: in the car, on the way to the water, watching the world shift through a window.

By physically layering paper, I have constructed these memories to mirror the sensation of a long road trip—a collection of fragmented moments that ultimately coalesce into a life-changing arrival.

The interior rhythm. These horizontal stripes focus on the physical world inside the car. They represent the shadows of the 1970s cabin - the constant, striped texture of the car itself that frames the passenger’s view for thousands of miles.