ABSTRACT
I have always loved the Ford Mustang ever since I was a little boy and I saw it for the first time in the movie, Bullitt. I consider it myself to be an icon, as is its driver, Steve McQueen. I wanted to create an image which was not just a reproduction of a car but I also wanted to give it a look that identifies my own idea of the car. I spent time looking for an environment which would give the car a dark and “bad” aspect, which is how I imagine this “muscle car”. I considered an alley of a nondescript American city where the light could not reach the ground, so the illumination was soft and low, even during the sunniest of days. The alley had to be dirty, with lots of garbage, pieces of paper at the side of the road, cigarette butts on the ground (typical of the sixties and seventies), abandoned newspapers, trash cans and floating smoke escaping from the drains. The pencil sketch helped me to visualize what I had in mind (Fig.01).
