Prologue :
   


Ho, that sound, is it the earth quaking? Is it the sea overflowing from its usual banks to reach the feet of men?


Atlantean architectural engineering & Sculptural Concept Designs - Giants by the Roadside :
     Gallery 1   \ Greek Mythology \ Atlantis \Tridents \ seashell throne \Mermaids 25/11/02
Out of the fishbowl!

sunken sculpture   

...revealed the fact that a far-flung body of water flowed at the bottom, winding out of sight in both directions, and almost lapping my feet as I stood on the slope. Across the chasm, the wavelets washed the base of the cyclopean monolith, on whose surface I could now trace both inscriptions and crude sculptures. The writing was in a system of hieroglyphics unknown to me, and unlike anything I had ever seen in books, consisting for the most part of conventionalized aquatic symbols such as fishes, eels, octipi, crustaceans, molluscs, whales and the like. Several characters obviously represented marine things which are unknown to the modern world, but whose decomposing forms I had observed on the ocean-risen plain.

It was the pictorial carving, however, that did most to hold me spell bound. Plainly visible across the intervening water on account of their enormous size was an array of base reliefs whose subjects would have excited the envy of a Doré. I think that these things were supposed to depict men; though the creatures were shown disporting like fishes in the waters of some marine grotto,...
Artwork Details :
     Artists Description and general comments.
Client : © Animatronic Technologies Australia.
Brief : Create and intergrate sculptures into pre-existing enviroments on Day dream Island, North Queensland, Australia. The designs were to suggest an Atlantian Mythology. Source photo »
Digital image manipulation : 41.4cm by 28cm
 Photo construct created in Adobe Photoshop 2002 a.d
 
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