On the left we have "Blue copyright 2010 by Martha Putnam." This is a painting of a wild dog that Martha's sister took in several years ago. He is half coyote and half husky or maybe Samoyed.
Below we have "Spiderweb copyright 2010 by Dave Putnam." Sometimes a painting is purely abstract on Earth but on another planet the image depicted is completely representational. And so it is with Spiderweb which shows a web constructed by the dominant species of a planet only a few light years from Earth circling Proxima Centauri. The spiders on Proxima are twenty feet tall and their webs are larger than football fields.
How are these two paintings related? The alien spiders have eating habits similar to wild dogs. Both have enormous appetites and both gobble their food with little attention to table manners. The lesson? We can find underlying similarities to overtly disparate objects if we only look closely enough.
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