The Ghost Ship
A "ghost ship" is one whose crew has mysteriously disappeared, leaving the ship adrift on the high seas. Some years later, after it has been assumed that the ship was lost with all hands in a storm, another ship finds the torn and tattered ghost ship adrift upon the high seas. No traces of foul play, disease, or mutiny are found. Only the ship itself, rotting under the blazing sun a thousand miles from the nearest land, remains as the mute testimony of a tragic voyage.
This particular ghost ship, as Augustine imagines it, was once a grand cosmic voyager that was found adrift in a star system far away, floating in the red twilight of a dying sun.
The drawing is interesting for the shifts of perspective within the structure of the ship and the array of sails on the stern. It is an imaginative drawing and one which has probably sold the most prints.
