Growth on Mars
Dear Editor:
Congratulations to our American space scientists who put that exploratory vehicle on Mars. One of the next steps should be to put a sounce of food there. I would like to put a source of food there. I would like to see dandelions seeded there, since on Earth they grow almost anywhere. In the spring they make delicious salad. In the summer you could take the flowers and make wine. You could take the roots and make tea. Dandelions reseed themselves and a handful do a vast area.

Peter Costa
Bloomington, NY
(Sunday Daily Freeman)



Summary: (from left to right)
      The Worm is facing its own destruction based on a random choice of path. One tunnel leads to the Scorpion and the other to safety. This displays the crucial importance of timing and good fortune in life. The Man on the ground is our present state the suspended animation of death and sleep in the present. The floating being represents a possible future state further into comatose, and the alien is, surprisingly, of the past, the farming and gathering in the beginnings of civilization. The piece displays time as parallel allowing different events at different times to overlap. For example, the baby corn plants are reminiscent of the colonization of the Americas. It brings up the possibilities of the effects of human presence in another land. We may be paving sidewalks with lampposts, indifferent to the fate of this untouched world.

The three figures represent different types of people. Essentially, the three types are those in a vegetative mental state (floating figure), those living in a false mental state (dreaming/passed out/ or dead Man), and those that occupy themselves with work or growing/producing food in this case (Alien).