In his iconic “flying cars” series, Porter presents images of vintage American cars, captured in gravity-defying scenes, as they careen over city streets and highway intersections. Using 1960s and 1970s muscle cars, Porter captures the aesthetics and romance of the car in American culture—each one is a character in the urban landscape, set hazardously aloft in cinematic hyperbole. Seen together, they form a topographic sequence of landscapes, mixing bittersweet nostalgia with the hyperreal. The result is a tension between what the eye sees and what the mind knows. Similar to Yves Klein’s Leap Into the Void, Porter’s flying cars offer a sense of freedom and risk, engaging the viewer in a pleasurable, willful suspension of disbelief. Porter's work is included in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; and the UBS Art Collection, New York, among others.