


Sometime back in 2015 I came across the story about a group of soldiers in Afghanistan whom, during a routine patrol, come across a cave. They enter the cave and discover something which they then in turn discuss with locals. The locals tell the soldiers that they must have stumbled upon so called Vimanas, the war chariots of ancient gods also described as something between a machine and a building.
There are many legends told of Vimanas even detailed technical descriptions on how they might work but there exists no other evidence of their existence. For all this I found them to be an excellent painting exercise.
