The
idea of the fireplug as a watch tower began with an ad
from my college alumni association for a boat tour through
the Iron Gate gorge on the Danube that had a picture of
some medieval fortifications there. Somewhere in my work
with the transformation, it occurred to me that a watch
tower might have eyes. The static discharge was created
using a technique borrowed from Al Ward's book on Elements
special effects. The background image is an ARIS stock
photo with some added mist.