Don’t let your eyes fool you. The picture above is a painting.

Brookyln-based painter Alexandra Pacula creates incredibly realistic, but blurry, images of busy nightlife seens on very large canvases. Or what New York City might look like if you were driving by at about 300 mph. Here’s what Pacula has to say about her work:

I recreate the feeling of dizziness and confusion by letting the paint blur and allowing shapes to dissolve.  I suggest motion in order to slow down the scene and capture the fleeting moments, which tend to be forgotten.  The sense of motion is intensified with the use of quick vigorous lines and sharp perspectives.  By interpreting lights in graphic or painterly ways, I create a sense of space, alluding to a hallucinogenic experience.  I want the viewer’s eye to travel within my composition and experience a familiar, exhilarating event of an actual nightly excursion.

See much more of her work here.

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