Anthony Coffey Art Blog

“If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?”
– Steven Wright

The “Light Speed Astronauts” Collection are a creative visual interpretation of what Astronauts might look like as they travel near the speed of light.

Two Astronauts were racing by you (the viewer) in their spaceship at the threshold of light speed. And you had a special freeze frame camera or projector that could capture an image at a millionth of a nanosecond of that instance where they were right in front of you as they raced by, how would they look? The color spectrum could not keep up with their velocity, so what would their color be at that instant they passed the viewer?  What would the colors be?

Depending on the Astronaut’s angle of trajectory, how would that change the viewer’s color perception and image? Would the image still have human form? Would the image be stretched or distorted?

The “Light Speed Astronauts” Collection are a creative visual interpretation of that effect.

The art medium is acrylic on canvas.