Jacob Munkhammar's Flying Citroëns

The vision of the cars of the future has always been present in the minds of designers who let their imaginations run wild to present “concept cars” at the various Motor Shows. These cutting-edge cars set the trend line that brands will follow in their future models or, with many modifications, even move from being concepts to becoming real street cars.

Not only do these designers think about how we will move in the future; science fiction filmmakers have also imagined it many times. One of the icons of these films was Professor Brown’s legendary DeLorean in Back to the Future. From traveling to the future to flying through that future and also through the present, more specifically in the second part of the saga, it let us dream of cars of that kind driving or flying through the streets.

Other films have shown traffic levitating at a certain height without touching the ground, like a hovercraft, such as the one Luke Skywalker used in Star Wars. That landspeeder allowed Luke to move around Tatooine.

That fictional reality is still very far from happening in the near future, but the Swedish artist Jacob Munkhammar has carried out an artistic project imagining cars of that style moving along the roads, as if the wheel had never been invented. He has a particular fondness for Citroëns from every era.

What he does is use photographs of the French brand’s models, ranging from the iconic DS, convertible versions, and the Citroën HY van, to the relatively more modern SM, BX and GS. He applies various filters to those photographs to give them a certain atmosphere. Then comes the complicated and delicate work of removing the wheels, rebuilding the chassis, and creating the appropriate shadows on the ground so that the vehicle appears to be genuinely floating in the air. In short, Photoshop in its purest form.

The results that can be seen in the gallery of works of this Swedish artist on DeviantArt are truly impressive. It is as if those cars were really floating, and they could have been on sale for years.

Source | The Citroën blog