Terrarium Car
Provenance
- Camera
- Nikon F100
- Film
- Cinestill 800T · 35mm · ISO 800
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
The rear door and window of a dark car. Creeper matted over the bodywork and pushed in through the seals. The same creeper filling the cabin behind the glass, pressing against the inside of the window. Dry grass stems across the foreground. A few leaves yellowed with the season. The door handle showing through the growth.
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Print datasheet
- Title
- Terrarium Car
- Series
- Ikeshima
- Catalogue
- IKE-006
- Process
- Giclée
- Captured
- 17 January 2026
- Camera
- Nikon F100
- Film
- Cinestill 800T
- Format
- 35mm
- Film ISO
- 800
- Paper
- Ilford Galerie Smooth Cotton Rag 310 gsm
- Location
- Ikeshima, Nagasaki, Japan
- Recognised by
- Highly Commended in Multimedia at the 2016 National Trust of Australia (NSW) Heritage Awards
Ikeshima, Nagasaki, Japan
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About this print
A dark car left to the plants on Ikeshima, its rear door and window almost hidden behind a mat of creeper that has climbed the bodywork and pushed in through every seal. Through the glass the interior is no longer seats and dashboard but the same creeper again: it has filled the cabin from floor to roof lining and presses against the inside of the window, turning the car into a terrarium.
Brett Patman
The series
Ikeshima
Ikeshima Coal Mine operated beneath the seabed off Nagasaki from 1959 until 29 November 2001, making it the last new coal mine to open in Japan and the last large-scale underground colliery to close. At its 1970 peak the island held 7,770 residents on a 0.86 km² rock in the Gotō Sea, housed in company-built concrete towers above a mine that reached 650 m below sea level.
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