Ravenport

… this is what I can only describe as a verdant apocalyptic build, portraying a town whose human population is now zero, thanks to some kind of plague, but whose flora and fauna is thriving. Whenever I see dead helicopters I cannot help but think of zombie apocalypse games, ‘Left 4 Dead’ in particular, but more on that, later…

… the ruined town is on the verge of total destruction, due to what must be decades of reclamation by the plant kingdom, and, beneath all that foliage, are all manner of animal, escaped, I’m assuming, from a zoo, many of them, it would seem…

… I love the fecundity of all the plant life, and it’s gorgeous greenness…

… this is a very convincing representation of what a deserted North American, or European town would look like, a few decades later. It is very much in the tradition of so many excellent scifi games and films, depicting such collapse…

… and, returning to the ‘Left 4 Dead’ theme, and, of course, ‘The Last of Us’, it’s scenes like this, as well as dead helicopters, that really make me think of those games… the sense of being in the relative security of the dense regrowth, looking into the ruins…

… of such mundane things as motels and parks, never knowing what dormant horror is waiting in there, but you have to go in, for food, or shelter, or whatever…