The submarine has an evolutionary history that resembles a bizarre black comedy pockmarked with disasters and lost lives …sacrifices in the pursuit of a workable technology. I can think of no other machine which provokes such a wide range of emotions in human beings ... most of all fear .Do we fear the submarine because it stirs something dark in all of us? Does ft reveal, by its methods, things deep and disturbing in the psyche of mankind? The first and most ancient purpose of 'art' was to visualise the invisible... gods ... the souls of ancestors ... spirits ... powers felt but unseen. Mythology was an integral part of this purpose... creating a working hypothesis by which mankind could touch, appease and understand things he feared or desired. In a parody to these ancient purposes. I have called upon my shipyard experiences to create 'Submarine'… A temple to man's quest for 'invisibility'. In this mythological deep sea world lies the 'Grave of the Undersea Boats'. Above a sand covered floor, bathed in the reflection of a shimmering sea ... a flotilla of submarines weave a ghostly shoal.... They are the spirits of submarines gone, represented in every shape and form ... the Kaiten Japanese suicide torpedoes ... the infamous U-boats ... British T. V, S and U classes ... Russians ... Italians ... Midgets ... spanning time, the American Civil War Huntleys and Davids. At the head of this shoal, the final stage of evolution ... the 'God Submarine' . On each side its hunter killer guardians ... it guides the spirits of its ancestors through the minefields. The God Submarine faces the clock of invisibility, which has no hands to tell time but counts the seconds to Armageddon by the motion of a swinging pendulum .. Submarine 5 Home