I did this collage a while back, when I first moved to New Orleans, I just added the starry background recently. I think I was coming from a place that was trying to figure out this city, why it's fusion with the past stopped it from catching up with the future. I had all these cut outs from old books and tried to make a space ship with them, the idea made a Brazil like fantasy.
Of course you could never use ancient building parts for space exploration, but with the way people fester and use nostalgia like a noose, someday someone might try.