Following on from successful exhibitions in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Germany, Le Fleming pursues the next car bonnet series with an exploration of sameness and difference. The series Petrol is a set of oil portraits painted directly onto car bonnets featuring various driving scenarios. Each piece represents a multifaceted study of one individual, cloned several times to construct a driving scene that involves a peculiar interaction with itself.

The study therefore is twofold; it focuses on the human tendency to connect to similar looking groups – in this case to their curiously multiplied selves. At the same time
Le Fleming is able to portray many sides of an individual - many contemplative, in the odd way which seems to exist in cars when they are being driven. This small world could be seen as a microcosm of human interactions and the interconnectedness of our futures.