Olga Volchkova Russian/American, 1970
Super Potato - Print available
14" x 12"
Signed print available $100
Signed print available $100
In Super Potato, a busy six-armed farmer is rendered in the manner of a Russian Orthodox saint, and embraces a llama, signifying the potato’s domestication in South America some 10,000...
In Super Potato, a busy six-armed farmer is rendered in the manner of a Russian Orthodox saint, and embraces a llama, signifying the potato’s domestication in South America some 10,000 years ago. One hand holds a sprig of light pink and white potato flowers, revealing their more delicate and beautiful side, while another grips a space in recognition of the potato’s significance in world agriculture. A third hand holds a potato sputnik: the potato was the first vegetable to be cultivated in space. The transcultural importance of this nightshade plant, and its powerful impact on animal and human life, is impossible to estimate.
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