In the wake of Curiosity’s landing on Mars, artist Kelly Richardson’s depictions of a post-apocalyptic Red Planet are a call for us to save our own planet
IT’S 200 years from now, and the sun beats down on a barren landscape of red rock scattered with smashed satellites and dilapidated robots. NASA’s battered old Curiosity rover lies wedged on a mound of dirt, its wheels whirring intermittently in futile effort, like an exhausted beetle stuck on its back.
This bleak Mars-scape is the work of Canadian artist Kelly Richardson. Mariner 9, a…
