Drive-In-Ry

It can hardly be argued that Drive-ins are all-American, but here in South Africa, and only a couple of decades later, we were experiencing our own special brand of Drive-in; complete with frosted fibreglass ice cream cones, bus-blowing-up opening nights and 2m high dividing walls. The first Drive-in in South Africa was built in 1952. Fifty years later and despite the relative success of Drive-ins like the Top-Star and Velskoen Drive-ins, which regularly draw large crowds, Drive-ins are dying a slow death because as Neil Young once said "rust never sleeps", and yet they seem so alive in imagination. A feat of heart as confident and proud as monuments and increasingly as grave as tombstones. I find myself attracted to the feeling of neglect, the slow decay of minimalism: This hungry ‘ghosts of the past’ energy keeps me going back. They still process a sense of magic though and in altering these images I hope I have given back some of that magic otherworldliness and at the same time allowed the possibility that someone else might have an entirely different view.