In “Adrift on the Hourglass Sea”, a woman finds herself alone in a wasteland appears to be Mars. It is uncertain whether she has arrived in some form of spacecraft, stepped through a fold in the space-time continuum, or projected herself there via mediation. Regardless, it is apparent that she has escaped an unnamed catastrophe on earth. In a hallucinatory series of episodes she simultaneously explores the planet and builds a mock-life for herself from both high-tech and stone-age materials. Mars is revealed to have ruined artifacts and monuments from a previous (or future) civilization. The remains of massive stone listening devices are littered about the landscape, leading us to wonder: is this a colony that has collapsed and lost touch with earth? How did its occupants become stranded? Or are these the nocturnal imaginings of a post-apocalyptic survivor?
