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In Rust I Trust
Photographs by Pierre Toutain-Dorbec
Text by Joan Logghe
“Rust is irresistible. Like kisses, it is transient; like memory, it is crumbling.”
In In Rust I Trust, Joan Logghe reflects on Pierre Toutain-Dorbec’s photographs of aging automobiles and the unexpected beauty created by rust, oxidation, color, and time.
Photographed across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon, these abandoned and weathered cars become more than remnants of an earlier America. Toutain-Dorbec approaches their surfaces with the combined eye of photographer and sculptor, finding abstraction, texture, color, and what Logghe describes as the “alchemy of rust.”
Drawing a connection to the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi—the recognition of beauty in imperfection, impermanence, age, and decay—Logghe considers these automobiles as objects transformed by time. What was once manufactured, polished, and new gradually returns to the landscape.
The result is a meditation on photography, memory, transience, and the strange beauty of decay.
— Text by Joan Logghe, Poet Laureate of Santa Fe
Paperback booklet — 28 pages
Full-color printing
5.5 × 8.5 in. (14 × 21.6 cm), portrait format
Staple bound
ISBN 978-0-9802432-2-2
In Rust I Trust
Photographs by Pierre Toutain-Dorbec
Text by Joan Logghe
“Rust is irresistible. Like kisses, it is transient; like memory, it is crumbling.”
In In Rust I Trust, Joan Logghe reflects on Pierre Toutain-Dorbec’s photographs of aging automobiles and the unexpected beauty created by rust, oxidation, color, and time.
Photographed across New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Oregon, these abandoned and weathered cars become more than remnants of an earlier America. Toutain-Dorbec approaches their surfaces with the combined eye of photographer and sculptor, finding abstraction, texture, color, and what Logghe describes as the “alchemy of rust.”
Drawing a connection to the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi—the recognition of beauty in imperfection, impermanence, age, and decay—Logghe considers these automobiles as objects transformed by time. What was once manufactured, polished, and new gradually returns to the landscape.
The result is a meditation on photography, memory, transience, and the strange beauty of decay.
— Text by Joan Logghe, Poet Laureate of Santa Fe
Paperback booklet — 28 pages
Full-color printing
5.5 × 8.5 in. (14 × 21.6 cm), portrait format
Staple bound
ISBN 978-0-9802432-2-2