But what pulls me to Red Star’s rez cars is how alive and human they feel: how, even in their eternal stasis, you can’t help see them as still somehow in motion.
The taxonomic nature of the series evokes the specter of anthropological specimen sampling and natural science modalities through which Native peoples have historically been studied. But Red Star’s straight images of vernacular reservation architecture and materiality create a portrait of life on the rez that counters romanticization with a touch of grounded humor.