In 1944, educational philosopher John Dewey wrote of Sobel's work in his characteristically florid style, «The quality I myself seem to feel most vividly is that of the interblending of the abundant life of vegetation with
the sparser life of human beings in a kind of brooding maternal wholeness.»
The world
of Portia is set in a post-apocalyptic future where
human life is
sparse and machines are simply relics
of the past, but from how mystical and serene the world looks, it certainly doesn't look like there has been an apocalypse.