Lemon

Description

Silver Halide Fuji Flex Crystal Archive paper printed with LightJet Oce 430, face mounted with 1/8Ó UV Tru-VU Clear Conservation Grade Acrylic and backed with 3mm Aluminium Dibond. Ready to hang with an Aluminium Black Profile Inset Frame. The series Frutta & Fiori focus on a intimate side of nature by capturing the quiet symmetry of its fruit and flowers. The plain background is reminiscent of the backdrops in passport pictures, likening these images to portraits. As we would with a face, I wanted to admire the unique micro and macro elements that make these subjects what they are: the myriad shades of pink in the grapefruitÕs flesh, the veins in an orchid petal, the tiny patterns that, when multiplied and repeated, become the whole. In their resting state, most fruits are sealed spheres, showing only their peel. I sliced each fruit and examined its cross section through the cameraÕs lens to get to its core, to expose and admire its essence