Potato

29.7 x 21 cm

Pencil drawing on paper

2022

Roots dry up when the concentration of love is insufficient, and rot when it’s excessive. Few cases of survival even without an artificial environment do exist, but it’s considered erratic and unrelatable to normal cases of survival. It also hinders qualitative livelihood and lifespans. Negative emotions easily blow up like intestine gas. No matter how many times you gouge out the festering parts, contamination travels faster. 

Tomatoes are gluttonous. Not only do they stab and kill, but they can also even swallow live tomatoes whole. The more violent ones’ appearance slowly changed. Once delicate eyes grew grotesquely larger, the mouth started gaping to devour as much as it could, and blunt teeth grew as sharp as sawteeth. These tomatoes end up buried deep in the ground since they are deemed undignified and cast out accordingly. Sometimes, they dig up the buried fellow and reaccept it into their group - most other colonies won’t be able to accept the fact that they’ve been forgiving each other.

Though no flowers have ever been planted in the garden, there always existed the few that wished to become one. They crawled into other colonies’ land to don certain appearances, or perhaps even to change themselves. When their range of vocals, pronunciation and tone, actions and thoughts were all newly substituted, they started sticking their head and rear up to the sky as if they'd actually become a flower. More love, stronger sunlight, more abundant streams of water, deeper understanding. No longer did lack of communication exist. They didn’t attack other plants in a sense of superiority as the tomatoes did. They simply became a symbol of simply existing as ourselves.