Can't Afford the Freeway

Can’t Afford the Freeway, 2007-10, is a body of work structured around conversation between Elana Mann and Captain Dylan Alexander Mack, which includes video installation, collage and a book. This project investigates how the objects and locations of everyday life in Los Angeles are acutely implicated in Captain Mack’s stories of war and coming home.

Can't Afford the Freeway, 2007-10, 15:22 min. trt, single channel HD video projection


 In the video from this series, Captain Mack speaks about driving and being an Iraq war veteran as Mann moves around and with her 2001 Subaru Legacy outback.

video still from Can't Afford the Freeway
video still from Can't Afford the Freeway
video still from Can't Afford the Freeway
video still from Can't Afford the Freeway
screening at Drive-in/ Walk-in/ Ride-in cinema at the Philadelphia Art Hotel, Philadelphia, PA
installation at REDCAT gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wind, Fire, Wheel, 2010, 4" X 6", cut collage and acryllic paint
untitled, 2010, 4" X 6", cut collage and acryllic paint