Hyperborea 11,000 BCE Noon Excursion

CLIENT: Then-future Executive VP Konazawa at Toshiba at one of his residences in Kobe, Japan.

AGENT: My late Uncle Norris Joseph McDonald was a young mid-level engineering manager at Toshiba's Southern California plant at the time.

AGENT: Ken ("Kenji San") Wehage of Riverside California and Tokyo, Japan.

MODELS: A Pleistocene epoch Coelodonta antiquitatis Woolly Rhinoceros, a Mammuthus primigenius woolly mammoth and a Mammut pacificus mastodon ridden by three Caucasus Barbarians.

SKETCH SETTING: Antediluvian lands of Hyperborea north of Europe prior to the dawn of recorded history in a lost realm circa 4000 to 6000 BCE.

RENDER LOCATION: TOPGUN United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, at Naval Air Station Miramar, California.

PROJECT TRIVIA: Nine years later, we would attempt business again with the assistance of Japanese American agent Ken Wehage resulting in contracts signed on a major art deal before Konazawa San and his assistant Kura San ("The Bear") were killed in the great Kobe Earthquake--otherwise known as the The Great Hanshin earthquake (阪神・淡路大震災, Hanshin Awaji daishinsai) on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST which was (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC).

I'm not sure what George R.R. Martin was doing "A Song of Ice and Fire"-wise in 1986, but Antediluvian medievalism was definitely a subject I loved and was messing with in 1986.