The sleep hero is a child. The landscape, a toy red horse with a broken wheel and apples (a quote from Petrov-Vodkin) is a link with the past, with ancestors, its support. His aspiration for the future is a red planet, a flying airship and paper cranes. According to one of the interpretations of dreams, the red planet foreshadows the achievement of goals. Such dreams are associated with fearlessness, courage and purposefulness.
The work is included in the catalog of the art encyclopedia "RED GATES / AGAINST FLOW-2018". Excerpt from the research article by Natalia Tolstoy (art historian, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts, director of the Research Institute of Theory and History of Fine Arts of the Russian Academy of Arts): “The picture of Tatiana Chepkasova“ Red Planet ”appeals to a deeper knowledge of Russian and Soviet art - in it, as in the rebus, the works of Yuon, Petrov-Vodkin, Deineka and Labasa are encrypted, and the manner of performance seems to parody the children's books, which illustrated the nowadays known as the classic and non-conformism artists who did not disdain this good earnings. The view seems to be like on Moscow from the Sparrow Hills, but in fact, there you can see the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, the Taj Mahal, and Stalin's skyscrapers”.
