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Red and blue fuel cans emerge from darkness, their reflections suspended beneath them. Through repetition, colour and controlled light, an ordinary industrial object becomes a way to consider desire, dependence and the things we use to keep ourselves moving.
A fuel can holds possibility. Its purpose points toward something that has yet to happen: a journey, an escape, an ignition. In these photographs, that action never arrives. The containers remain still, their contents unseen. Their presence carries the knowledge that something useful can also become destructive, depending on how it is handled. The viewer encounters that uncertainty before encountering any explanation.
The musical reference gives the work an emotional starting point. Here, “Gasoline” becomes an invitation to think about what sustains us, what consumes us, and how easily those experiences can overlap. A relationship, an ambition, a memory or a repeated habit can offer the energy to continue while also demanding something in return. The fuel can gives that exchange a physical shape. It contains a resource, but it also requires care.
The title, Ethanol Again, brings repetition into the work before the images are considered together. “Again” suggests a return: replenishing a reserve, revisiting a feeling, reaching for something familiar. Repetition can be reassuring. It can also become a pattern we recognise without knowing how to interrupt. Across the four photographs, the recurring object holds both possibilities. Each encounter looks familiar, yet a change in colour or proportion alters its emotional weight.
Red and blue establish different conditions for looking. Red draws attention quickly, carrying associations with heat, warning and urgency. Blue can suggest distance or composure, although its intensity here keeps it from becoming entirely restful. Neither colour settles the object’s meaning. Together, they allow the same form to feel inviting, guarded, desirable or unstable.
Darkness makes those shifts more pronounced. The photographs offer little surrounding information: no road, no vehicle, no figure to explain who has left the can there or what happens next. Light catches a handle, a seam, the curve of a spout. Other edges recede. Looking becomes a gradual act of recognition, with the eye assembling an object that is never equally visible everywhere.
The reflection introduces another uncertainty. Beneath each can is a second version of its body, recognisable but without the same solidity. That doubling suggests the distance between something and its appearance, between what is held internally and what becomes visible on the surface. It also extends the series’ sense of repetition into each individual photograph. The object returns within its own image.
The compact and upright forms change the rhythm of that encounter. The shorter cans gather weight across the frame; the taller forms create a more vertical presence. Their differences are modest, but the stripped-back setting makes them consequential. With so little competing for attention, proportion, colour and reflection carry the experience.
Ethanol Again embodies a state of contained potential. Its objects are composed and motionless, yet their familiar purpose makes stillness feel temporary. The work leaves the viewer with a question that extends beyond the photographed can: what are we carrying, what keeps us going, and what happens when we reach for it again?
