Artist Shaun Tan lives in Melbourne, Australia, where residents get excited when they're allowed to water their gardens every second day. Australia's decade-long drought has forced vigilant water conservation and has led to a growing awareness that the nation's water shortage is not merely the result of living in a sunburned country: climate change, agriculture, and a fondness for the suburban lawn are also at fault. "Sunday Afternoon Drought," in oils and acrylics on paper, is Tan's submission to the Society of Illustrators' Earth: Fragile Planet exhibition, opening in New York City on June 4. In his words, it is an invitation to "recognize harmful dependencies, question normality, exercise our imaginations, and consider alternative ways of being."