The final painting begins with the cloud and ruins under the cannon continuing into the new painting as the echoes of war shape the new world. Just as in the beginning the clouds rain fertilizing the earth for new life. A mother mourns the dead youth in the ruins of the old world while a three men rise up above. The lowest holding a glass case with a young tree in it while the top two figures of the united states and soviet untion flight over the globe while their hands meet in eastern Europe. (it is not drawn yet but the Russian will have a bear on his hat somewhere and there will be an eagle on the figure of America. As the clouds represent the fertilizing sky that can be personified as Jupiter the woman on the bottom is Leda who gives birth to his children out of an egg showing new life beginning again from the ruins. Her babies crawl forward into a new world. This world is dominated by tech and shown by visual wordplay. The figures holding windows, faces and an apple alongside the amazon are the new powers of tech. the figure behind them holds a rocket and points to the sky where two figures wrestle a satellite into place. The fountain that the tech people approach is the fountain of youth an dbaptism that has appeared in so many myths and stories. It is the drea of tech utopianists like Ray Kurzweil. At the bottom of the fountain is the labrynth symbolizing the search for the center of understanding and the hope to unify all knowledge. At the top is the unbroken sphere representing the cosmic egg reformed and on the first level is a harpy like figure representing the monsters that can form in the waters of the fountain of dreams. Around the upper section of the fountain are Hera, venus and Athena. The man with the apple is presenting it to them in a quotation from the Homeric epics when the apple of discord is given to paris to choose between the goddesses and in the process he launches the Trojan war. This brings the downfall of troy. The lines of Christopher Marlowe “Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium--Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--.  Will be carved on the fountain.

 Behind is the great tower, part Babel of the new world and built in the shape of the double helix of DNA. The allegory of the fountain foretells its fall. As the tower is total and unifying so is it’s fall. This brings us full circle to complete the cycle in the garden again. Now monkeys inhabit a new primeval landscape with a tomb that as a final reference to the dream of tech will have the lines from Ray Kurzweil’s poem All watched over by machines of loving grace : I like to think (it has to be!), of a cybernetic ecology,  where we are free of our labors, and joined back to nature,  returned to our mammal, brothers and sisters, and all watched over,  by machines of loving grace.