The individual units of this small series (2022) are inspired by found marks on the skins of avocados. The “Alligator skin” on an avocado is a brown, netlike or scabby appearance that affects the fruit’s appearance but is does not change the quality of the avocado flesh. Even so, some customers avoid these beautiful specimens.
To me the scars are like a symbolic language. It speaks of an event that the avocado plant has experienced and perhaps a secret memory kept by the plants. In this series I am interested in how we directly and indirectly depend on plants for nourishment and yet we are suffering from acute ‘plant blindness’, not truly seeing the plants in all their glory.
Dimensions are variable as it consists of five units, but a digital version, as seen below, with computer generated shadows was shown in the Wånder Wide Web exhibit (open 30. June-30. Sept 2022 – now closed) on Kunstmatrix. This exhibit was curated by Annalisa Mercuri and Sonia Boing and supported by the Open College of Art, UK. All contributions can be seen here (exhibition overview).
