Pangofortopia

The initial idea for a utopia of pangoforts was spawned from this woodcut image of a generic landscape scattered with pangoforts:

Then through research on the utopian ideals of Sir Ebenezer Howard's "Garden Cities of To-morrow", I made a series of woodcuts to suggest how these communities would be laid out in plan:

From my initial woodcut, I was inspired to look at traditional Japanese woodcuts (Ukiyo-e). I then woodcut a series of four images depicting the pangoforts in idyllic natural landscapes:

The end goal for these images was to create a small journal for an invented character that recorded his findings of the pangofort utopia on a visit as an outsider.

The visitor also captured a series of polaroid-type pictures as part of his findings:

UPDATE! (click to see new PangoFort pictures)