Atlantean Cathedral

Investor: Hiroshi Konazawa of Toshiba along with his assistant Kura-San ("Bear") until they were killed in the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

Location: Kobe, Japan. Note: Our investments and our business in Japan died with our investors on 16 January 1995. The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災, Hanshin Awaji daishinsai), or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region known as Hanshin.

Theme: This lost Atlantean Coral Cathedral exists somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle where Bahamian-Atlantic species thrive. Species include the famous Bahama waters yellow grunts, the all-East Coast yellow snappers, horse-eye jacks, a Nassau grouper, a flying squid, and a massive school of hammerhead sharks. The deep-water diving couple have found some exotic and antediluvian crystalline and gold alter decorations which alerted a passing triton and his mount.

History: This was a mini-poster distributed for officers workers in major cities around Japan in 1994 and the first sixteen days of 1995. The render was completed back in 1993. The model was an old-school Hippy surfer from South San Clemente, California. I found a small group of business executives From the Toshiba Corporation's operations in Kobe, Japan who didn't suffer from Gaijing-itis and while the printing and production work was actually done in Bangkok, the posters sold throughout Japan and Asia.

In fact, my Japanese clients and publishers for mini-posters went nuts for this image which earned me a metric ton of cash proceeds, residuals, royalties and licensing fees. So were my graphics contacts in Johannesburg, South Africa. I also completed a quick trip to Port Elizabeth, South Africa--Twenty-One hours--which was also required. My "Bucket List" first dive with living coelacanths (A living 300 million-year-old living fish fossil) was completed on this trip, but was extremely short at depth--a mere eight minutes--at 188-feet--requiring decompression stops and careful US Navy dive table calculations with spare air tanks tied off on our dive ropes at the required stops. I never use local navy calculations. They fudge the numbers.

This drawing is not my most well known image, but it is one of my most dynamic and broad spectrum in terms of my multimedia pigments. Bic and Pentel pens were utilized as well as graphite Number Two pencils, Prismacolor pencils by Berol, India inks, Dr. Martin inks, F&W inks, acrylic tube paints, markers from all over, and live critter models from public and university aquariums all over Nassau were utilized.