Carpoolers #992

The Carpoolers Arcade Game, 2026, grows out of my long-term documentary project Carpoolers, which followed Mexican workers riding in the open beds of pickup trucks as they moved between home and work across suburbs and cities. Translating these photographs into a video game lets the images stop being only something you look at and become something you move through. The player does not control a hero. You are in an digital arcade "landscape." You navigate routes, timing, balance, and risk. Simple actions like staying in the truck or making it to the job site become charged with tension. Play becomes a way of feeling how labor is organized, how bodies are transported, and how entire systems depend on people who are meant to remain unseen. Created by Carpoolers Gaming Inc. in collaboration with Fellowship and Louise Alexander Gallery