"I'm dying to see what scientists will think," Rockman said, while still working on the painting, transforming technical information from his research into visual language (3) . In this restructured environment, geology is turned on its ear, along with the food chain. Large fish with snake heads or oversized whiskers swim by a tirelike cell infected with giant HIV. Jellyfish tentacles stretch halfway across the seascape, past a two-tailed salmon. Flocks of wild birds hover above the waterline. Minute life forms, enlarged against the ruins, signal the survival of the unexpected. A galleon rests near the wreckage of a nuclear submarine. And the grand bridge lies broken, a fossil amidst decaying structures and vegetation.