This a representation of Platon's old Cavern Myth: "Some people are attached on the wall of a cave and can't see outside are figuring out the world after the shadows that they see on the walls. What are these things, what are those creatures that change shape as they move ?" This myth questions the reality of the world as we perceive it. It's a kind of "Matrix" from the antiquity. :-)

Ranked 30/41 IRTC 02/2004 - Mythology

I consider that nanotechnologies will make a great change for us in the future. This image shows two CK335 (Cancer Killer type of bots) analysing human organism in search for cancerous cells. You can see the three cranted wheels they use for moving and the round pod at the rear which is the analysis pod. When a anomalous cell is found, the pod retracts and injects a deadly poison into the cell.

Ranked 5/73 - IRTC 12/2003 - Future

This image depicts what could be called conscious auto-decaying. It makes a parallel between the smokers that spoil their own body and human kind that spoils its own planet which is as much essential to its survival. Both do it because in some ways it's good until the point when it's not anymore, and then it's always the same "If I had known ..."

The thing is that we know ...

I centered the hole on the US because the states are the biggest source of pollution on earth, but we should be all conscious that everyone in the so called developped countries is polluting too much.

Ranked 9/72 - IRTC 10/2003 - Decay

This is a very literal interpretation of the theme. I wanted to do an image that would really bring to mind the concept of decay to someone looking at it.

Ranked 14/72 - IRTC 10/2003 - Decay

My vision of surrealism is some kind of sensual humour. I couldn't find more sensual subject than human body ... This represents a humouristic vision of human body.

Ranked 30/103 - IRTC 08/2003 - Surrealism

People from outer space come to visit us, and unfortunately they find this photo: War is a mystery to them.

Ranked 23/68 - IRTC 06/2003 - Mystery

I always think we tend to limit history to the last few thousand years when not the last few centuries. I think this is unfair as many many things we have today come from remote ages, from fire, language to the animals and plants that where domesticated some 10000 years ago and that feed us. So, this picture represents the ancestor technology of what we all do with graphics : ancient art. I added the Povray logo as a link to the modern graphic technologies as if the painter had foreseen it. It is a humble homage to all these great anonymous people.

Ranked 35/85 - IRTC 02/2003 - Old Technologies

My first IRTC entry, which was a non-entry as I finished it too late.

Not ranked - IRTC 12/2002 - Theme Frozen moment