DRAGON v. SPINOSAURUS
OR: Carnage at Carhenge.
This piece was finally printed, years after it was created as a portfolio piece, on the back cover of the Baycon 2005 program book.
I am often asked, what is Carhenge and why are the monsters fighting there? Carhenge is like Stonehenge, but made out of cars. Check out my page on it here. The idea is that Carhenge celebrates automobiles, but also is a testament to the ultimate futility of private transportation. The automobiles there are painted gray, like tombstones. Despite the humor of the conceit, Carhenge, with the ghostlike moaning winds sweeping over the plains in the distance, is a profoundly sad and quiet place. On my Carhenge page, I noted that nobody knows who built Stonehenge (no, it wasn't the Druids). Thousands of years from now, will future archaeologists know why we poisoned the water and air and fought and killed each other so we drive inefficient cars? Why do we kill for oil? It all seems so pointless and stupid, like titans fighting over a crumb of nothingness.
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