"This is a drawing that I commissioned in 2017/2018 to recreate (with a few additions) the flyleaf at the front of every Tom Swift book I read as a kid. Those books were, in effect, my introduction to engineering and they described it with a simple joy and a sense of adventure. That made a huge impression on me as a five year old. To me this image represents our ability to use our collective knowledge and inventiveness to design things that can literally transport us and change our perspective in amazing ways." John Beans
