1968 Dodge Charger by Domstad Rudie

About "1968 Dodge Charger"

by Domstad Rudie

About the artwork

In front of us is the grill of a classic car, bright green like spring leaves breaking free from the asphalt jungle. The car is no longer a car; it is a totem, a smile with steel teeth. The digital brush has softened its metal into liquid surfaces, a memory turned into an image.

The background burns red, as if the car rises from a fiery dawn. Green and red, complementary opposites, collide and dance in this flat universe without a horizon. It seems as if time has solidified: no road, no sky, just the brutal presence of the Charger's nose rushing towards us yet remaining immobile.

The reflections in the bonnet suggest trees and cloud-fragments of a world that exists outside the frame, traces of a forgotten drive along a summer avenue. The yellow badge winks like a tooth of gold, a reminder of human rules amid the untamed power of speed.

This digital artwork plays with nostalgia: the longing for roaring engines, for the promise of open roads. But the smooth surfaces, the cartoon-like lines betray that this is just an echo, a pixel dream. It is an icon of freedom caught in the straitjacket of a screen.

"Green Charger to Red Sky" is an ode to desire and stillness, to how technology does not copy the past but reinvents it-a reminder that even steel and rubber can become poetry in the world of colour and light.

Address: Zeist, Netherlands

Digital artwork after a photograph by P.W. van den Berg

Completed on: 11-10-2025