LINCVOLT SPACETIME
LIGHTSPEED ON LIGHTFUEL
Neil Young's Lincvolt is a 1959 Lincoln Continental rebuilt as a 6,700-pound proof of concept for clean transportation, with electric drive and a small generator running on cellulosic ethanol. These infrared Spacetime Paintings come from the 2013 drive across the American West: the car holding steady in the frame while Nevada streams past, and the road the next day holding its shape while everything around it flows.
Lincvolt Nearing Lightspeed, Nevada. August 26, 2013. Prints from $100
The Lincvolt crossing Nevada: Neil Young's 1959 Lincoln Continental, rebuilt as a 6,700-pound proof of concept for clean transportation. The desert and mountains stream past while the car holds steady in the frame. To me that year it stood for the future: lightspeed on lightfuel.
Sea of Land, Nevada. 2013. Prints from $100
Flat open ground runs out to a low range of mountains under streaks of high cloud, and in the long exposure the land moves like water. I was thinking about how much larger nature is than anything we build on it.
Wave of Constant Change. August 27, 2013. Prints from $100
Made the day after Lincvolt Nearing Lightspeed, on the same drive. A two-lane highway bends toward a long line of white cloud. The road holds its shape while everything around it keeps moving: whatever you fix your attention on stays solid, and the rest flows.