
Gasoline, Smashing Cars
In small towns across America, people gather to watch their neighbors crash cars into each other until only one still runs. What draws me to these fairgrounds isn't just the spectacle but the hands—calloused and oil-stained—that transform family sedans into war machines during evenings after work shifts.
Here is America's complicated relationship with automobiles distilled to its essence: creation through destruction, community through competition, value found in what others discard.


