Homesickness

I had the idea for this image in the back of my mind for quite some time as an adjunct to a book that I intend to write after I finish It Isn’t Murder If They’re Yankees in 1999. When the September/October 1998 Internet Ray-Tracing Competition announced that water was the theme, I decided that this was a good time for me to try and realize the piece.

“We and all our works are lemmings rushing to extinction. I am a lemming who has raised his head and cried, Jesus Christ, we’re all marching to extinction. The other lemmings answer me, Shut up and march.”—James Tiptree, Jr. (The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon)