Abandoned, found, and run over on the road in Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, a Natural World Heritage Site located in the state of Goiás, Brazil.
This project emerged during the 2020 pandemic lockdown and has no set end date. With social isolation, the region where I live allowed me to go cycling on the highway where there were no social interactions; it was just me, my bicycle, and an idea in my head. Along the highway that borders the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park, I quickly noticed the large amount of trash abandoned on the roadside and a significant number of dead wild animals. This motivated me to document each object left on the road and also each animal run over. With the social isolation brought on by the pandemic, this was the closest interaction I had with other people through their irresponsible actions.
This project emerged as a form of environmental critique, being located in an environmental reserve area, bringing this critique of the impacts that humans can generate wherever they go. The use of the yellow line on the highway as a guiding thread in this narrative generates a sense of expectation of the unusual, in the same way as taking a long road to a destination where we have no control over what we will see or what might happen.