There are times lately when my home town feels unfamiliar, as if Scottie had beamed me into an alternate universe. When I was a kid visiting Seattle Center or Pike Place Market on a family outings, Tim Wistrom's prints of Seattle in a post-global warming world seemed bizarrely fun and unimaginably prescient. One of my favorite images showed the Space Needle almost submerged with flowers sprouting from the top while whales circled below the water line near the curvy support beams. As the neighborhoods surrounding the Space Needle are transformed by high tech dollars that help to create a virtual world where Scottie might have lived, the iconic symbol of the Space Age is undergoing a type of submersion that even Wistrom didn't foresee.
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