The book “The Journey of a Young Adventurer”, published at the end of the last century, gained cult status among fantasy and fiction fans, thanks in large part to the illustrations of Rodney Matthews, who created vivid and surrealistic pictures of unrealistic mysterious and therefore attractive worlds.
In the picture of Rodney Matthews “Destroying the superfluous,” we see the planet of the future: the machines flooded the earth, the grass ruthlessly trampled down, the last trees were uprooted. The consequences of a disastrous civilization are evident – in the pursuit of a more perfect people, they destroyed the most valuable thing. The inhabitants of the miserable planet will no longer see the apple trees blooming, the children running around the green lawn, they will not hear the cheerful birds singing in the garden.