"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" paintings 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. If 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.
