Corrosion examines the material transformation of discarded objects through prolonged exposure to environmental elements. This body of work documents the oxidative decay of metal—specifically rust, the chemical process by which iron loses electrons to oxygen in the presence of moisture—as it gradually reclaims industrial and domestic objects over time.

The project juxtaposes recently discarded items with those abandoned for fifty years or more, visualizing deterioration as both chemical process and metaphorical narrative. These comparisons reveal how time, weather, and neglect conspire to dissolve utility, value, and memory into texture, patina, and structural collapse.

The work was photographed entirely at Montgomery Sales Inc., a multi-generational diesel mechanic business and salvage yard operating for over half a century. This site functions as an unintentional archive of material culture—a landscape where workout equipment, grills, passenger vehicles, and destroyed semi-trucks exist in various states of decomposition. The junkyard's temporal depth, spanning decades of accumulation, provides an ideal environment for observing corrosion's progressive stages within a single location.

This work asks viewers to perceive decay not merely as visual phenomenon but as embodied experience—to translate the sight of corrosion into a visceral recognition of time's material consequences.