Oil on printed advertisement, painted in 2002. Brush strokes combined with printed advertisement for plastic garden furniture. Mid Class Mercedes with mid 80s first plastic bumper. Cromeline aged customer’s where disappointed parking in the fresh green. This work is less a car portrait than a landscape of changing design. The Mercedes appears in the greenery as part of a visual transition: the new plastic bumpers of the 1980s replaced chrome with something more functional, unfamiliar, and less dignified. What once seemed odd or disappointing now reads as a distinct period look. The image holds that shift between elegance, modernity, and hesitation.