This image began with the idea of a man in a lifeboat extending his hand to a drowning passenger of a torpedoed ocean liner (a Countess). A man's hand reaches out from a lifeboat, embracing the hand of a woman in her late thirties. It is the 1940, and a state of war exists betw

A man's hand reaches out from a lifeboat, embracing the hand of a woman in her late thirties. It is the 1940, and a state of war exists between the axis powers and Great Britain. The woman swimmer is an aristocrat, with elegant, upswept hair. Her hair is now waterlogged (soaked) In the distance, the ...