Discovery

Overall, I like this intriguing scene.

VISION
The image protrays African hunters bearing spears, discovering a long-abandoned modern/high-tech ovoid home in the shape of dome. The contrast between the artificial building (possibly a flying craft of some kind) and the natural setting highlights the distance in technology: the plants and trees growing on the building emphasizes the distance in time.

The powerful impact of time, the suggestion of a lost advanced world, and the primal naturalistic scene gives a strong visionary punch to the image.

ORIGINALITY
The scene is reasonably original: it is not often you see a contrast of Neolithic-tech hunters and modern/future architecture, in an environment that emphasizes the success of the hunters and the failure of the technologically advanced moderns/future men.

TECHNIQUE
The technique was put in the service of the work: so a painterly approach was used that would not have been out of place in the 18th century. This technique not only highlights the low-tech nature of the world, but even hearkens back to the European Age of Discovery.

On reflection, the technique is something of a inverse of the classic European paintings: instead of an advanced civilization meeting the poor and ignorant natives, you see the living natives encounter the ruins of a dead advanced civilization. "Better being poor and yet live, than to be rich but dead."

Again, there is nothing particularly advanced regarding the technique: it was competently executed, but there is nothing extraordinary about it. What is of significance is WHY this particular style of painting was used.

IMPACT
The overall impact is a strong one: the lost dreams of a great civilization, discovered by the surviving primitives of the area. (Perhaps the descendants of that high-tech civilization?)

It is the story of a poor but living people, vital and fertile (note the mother and child in the foreground). They discovered this building: that is, they are an expanding people, successful for their level of development, going where they did not go before.

And on their way to greatness, there are the ruins left behind by an earlier people who also once had their time of glory... and are now no more.

A simple but serious, somewhat melancholic work of art, and a warning I appreciate.