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My ship-in-a-bottle dream was of an otherworldly passage: Aeneas or Orpheus journeying to the land of the dead, perhaps, but also that classic science fiction moment when characters discover their lives are bounded by a manufactured world.

These photos were taken before I sealed the construction hatch in the Pacific Ocean. You can still visit the Underworld—in fact, it’s in my dining room—but you have to peer at it through slots and portholes.