Nova Reyes · No. 138

Midnight Drive

Midnight Drive trades the synthwave grid for cinema. A neon skyline of magenta and cyan towers stands mirrored in wet asphalt while long-exposure tail-lights carve red and white ribbons across the foreground, a small moon presiding above. Reyes works here in the idiom of the night-city photograph — the cyberpunk metropolis of Blade Runner — but heightens it until colour itself becomes the subject. The streaking lights lend the still image duration: we sense the car that made them, the hum of the road, the loneliness of the late hour. Moody and atmospheric, it is the most narrative work in the collection — a single frame from a film the viewer is invited to finish.

An original oil painting on canvas by Nova Reyes, painted to order — never a reproduction. Retro-futurist vaporwave — neon gradients, perspective grids, chrome and synthwave sunsets in electric magenta, cyan and purple.

Artist

Nova Reyes

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand