Highway Star
We love our cars and want to dress them up pretty and take them to town.
Lowrider cars combine and exacerbate old and modern Baroque sensibilities, transforming American cars into sexualized moving altars of an American dream gone amok.
Low and slow is for customs, hot and fast for hot rods. They have an aesthetic attached to them: the aggressive, in-your-face stance.
I want to see
the real relations but you've got Nikes on and I like you so I have to try and understand.
The template for a new kind of luxury vehicle.
Our imagined future is grounded in the objects that are readily available in today's throw-away culture.
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