This work has quite a unique and involved, underlying process which includes a wide range of steps from bush-walking to photography to metal cutting to printing to welding.

Once a wreck rich with raw, weathered, elemental patina is located, Kirsch documents it in photography. Suitable car body parts are selected for later usage as canvases. They are cut out on site with a generator-powered angle grinder. The successful images are prepared for screen-printing at the studio.

The artist then screen prints a compostion of the photographic image, words and other elements directly onto the rusty part of the car. As the artwork only gets printed onto parts salvaged from the very vehicle featuring in the picture, the available quantity is usually very limited.

Last a custom designed stainless steel mounting system is welded directly to the back of the work. Each corner of a piece has an individually machined cylinder which allows for flush wall mounting. This is necessary as there is practically no flat piece on a car body – everything is curved one way or the other. And usually it's both. exhibition