In 1872, Japanese woodblock artists stood beside crowds watching their first steam train, and drew the moment the future arrived. I found that print at The Met (Tsukioka Yoshitoshi), paired it with a hand-engraved steam engine from the Portefeuille de John Cockerill, 1859–76 (University of Liège) and Jan van Huysum’s flower painting, c. 1728 (Rijksmuseum), and blended all three into one Recraft Style: “Ukiyo Steam.” Then I gave those old printmakers a new future to witness. In 2060, AI data centres have swallowed the power grid and the city goes dark, until people bring steam back with nothing burned, its heat recycled and every drop of water returned as gardens. Across ten scenes, from “Grid Is Cooked” to a sky whose only cloud is a heart, it’s a story about a city learning to breathe again, seen through 1870s eyes. https://x.com/jey_jey_Japa/status/2116675079954194539?a=IsFtLc9QOJrKWkugBkI&s=20