Nice surrealism. An alternate version would have the noose around an infant sitting next to the waterer.
Yes.
Or, an old man watering with nooses around his wife, his adult son and his wife, with their 4 children. Standing in the background is a shadowy figure - smiling with an ax in hand - ready to harvest the tree after the generations hang themselves.
Strange - when I first looked at it, I imagined the rope was a hose attached to the watering can.
I took it as “fallacy of the stimulus,” or as Obama said, “There’s no such thing as a shovel-ready job.”