This is probably the most personally challenging visual art piece I've ever done and also the one that took the longest to get from concept to finished work (started mulling it over pretty much immediately after listening to "Six Travelers: Pickman").
Heavily inspired by the weird looming towers and shadowed doorways of Giorgio de Chirico's paintings -- in fact, in a shadow near the center of the image there's a figure mimicking the silhouette of a running child from Mystery and Melancholy of a Street. I was also thinking a lot about the anonymous Dutch painting from 1530 De Lakenmarkt van 's-Hertogenbosch (The Cloth Market in 's-Hertogenbosch), which has this amazing angled perspective that shows way more of the street than seems physically possible to see at one time.
