As mentioned in my last post, me and my partner Gene Kogan have been experimenting with illustrating a short sci-fi story I’ve written and recently published with Untitled Frontier. The story evolved from a project I started in 2020, the first time I went to Mars. Not so far as the planet Mars, but in a little part of the Sonoran desert where a bunch of friends created an art community/ R\&D lab we call Mars. After all, if our technology could one day take some humans to the red planet, we could just as well use it to try to inhabit the harsh parts of nowadays Earth. A high tech, low cost approach. It’s an exercise in resilience and sustainability, with a lot of space for artistic madness and fun.