Judge — July 16, 1921 — page 4: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Analysis of "That 'Running-Away-from-Home' Feeling" This illustration by W.G. Fabb depicts a fantastical cityscape suspended in clouds above a earthly landscape. The composition contrasts an idealized, impossibly grand architecture (appearing Eastern European or Russian in style, with onion domes and ornate spires) against a grounded reality below with cypress trees framing a figure gazing upward. The title suggests the satire concerns escapist fantasy—the allure of imagining oneself elsewhere. The elaborate dream-city represents an idealized place one wishes to flee toward, while the solitary observer below represents the reality-bound dreamer. This likely critiques either wanderlust, immigration yearnings, or romantic notions of distant lands during the early 20th century period.