Without a floor to stand on or a horizon line to anchor them, these pigs could be blimps floating in the sky against a cloud of fluffy particles. When this photograph was taken in 1964, photographer Jerome Liebling wrote, "Any evidence of rural idyll was long gone from Minnesota but it seemed that everyone kept searching for the past memory. Like some fairy tale, the idyll would reappear every August for ten days and display for us a marvelous cornucopia of fruits, legumes, baked and canned goods, pumpkins, homey crafts. And the most spectacular pigs, cows, sheep and horses. What we would not find in the fields awaited us each year at the Minnesota State Fair." (The Minnesota Photographs, 1997) By closing in with his camera and excluding any details that may have been surrounding these sleeping, peaceful pigs, Liebling kept them timeless. This would still be a familiar sight at the Minnesota State Fair.