As highway travelers we eventually come across the shredded steel and rubber remains of what was once a tractor-trailer tire. In the split second of a blowout, this manufactured object, valued and sustaining in the business of transportation, is reclassified as debris.  Although now considered hazardous trash and public eyesore in terms of its lost purpose and function, in its reincarnation it becomes an evocative and characterizing image of highway travel. In its transformed condition it is ripe for rediscovery as symbol and subject of metaphor.

Inspired by such found objects, I explore the concepts of time and transformation, ideas of debasement, devaluation, ruination and misfortune, consider what is valuable in discards, rejects, rubbish, and litter; and investigate feelings associated with disintegration, decay and loss.