"Periscope view"

Dream illustration

computer drawing © David John 1989

Another dream picture. I'm not sure what's going on here, but I suspect the influence of Neville Shute's novel On the beach. In his post nuclear holocaust story, a submarine is sent from Australia to the United States to see if anybody has survived there. The captain's first view of a deserted San Francisco through his periscope is desolate.

This skyline is more like that of New York with its Twin Towers, and seems even more eery now in our post 9.11.2001 world.

This is one of the first computer drawings I did, around 1989. The image is a scan of the drawing printed out on an ancient IBM printer.