Shopping trolleys are one of the most ordinary objects in everyday life. We rely on them without thinking: pushing them through supermarket aisles, loading them with food, and leaving them behind once their job is done. They are built to serve us repeatedly, yet they are often treated as disposable, abandoned in car parks, left by roadsides, or pushed far beyond the places they were meant to be.

This project explores the strange afterlife of the shopping trolley once it leaves the supermarket. I began noticing them everywhere: half-submerged in rivers, tangled in hedges, lying on pavements, or stranded in unexpected corners of towns and countryside. Removed from their intended environment, these objects take on a different character. They become accidental sculptures, markers of human movement, and quiet evidence of neglect.

Photographing these discarded trolleys is partly an act of observation and partly an act of curiosity. Each one raises a question: how did it end up here? A trolley in a riverbank or deep in a hedge suggests a small, unseen journey. Someone pushed it, dragged it, borrowed it, or abandoned it along the way. Their final resting places hint at stories that are rarely considered.