Robin Frohardt, the visionary behind the critically acclaimed Plastic Bag Store and a 2024 Herb Alpert Award winner,m returns to Austin with a new, genre-defying live-cinema performance.

For 15 years, Frohardt has lived across from a Home Depot parking lot - an unremarkable view that became a source of personal and cultural reflection. Her new project, Shopping Center Parking Lot, explores the loss of identity, community, and connection to nature in a world shaped by asphalt, big-box store sprawl, and endless consumer rhythm.

Through a hand-built cardboard set, live puppetry, and cinematic projection, the work reimagines the parking lot as part of the ecosystem, blurring the line between the natural and the constructed. It’s a meditation on the quiet poetry of overlooked spaces - and what they reveal about the world we’ve built.