Aqua 500 piece jigsaw

Mathews first commissioned for the british prog rock supergroup Asia, Thier manager approached him request artwork suggestions for their fourth studio album, which had no title at the time.  Following Asia tradition, it would be a single word, beginning and ending with the letter "a" Matthews rummaged through his dictionary and same up with 'Aqua' he incorporated two elements requested by the band, water, and space, into several sketches and presented the results to Keybiardist Geoff Downes and vocalist and bassist John payne, they chose this one, the implication of the piece is that Gods creation remains while Man's aspirations fall into ruin