Introduction
I am photographing decaying apples, and other fruit, exploring the allegorical richness of the fallen fruit by picturing an Eden where the most surprising beauty lies in what seems lost and ruined. I collect these decaying fruits (exquisite, imperfect, strange) and I freeze them, in order to preserve the fleeting moment of their decay. I often use the same frozen props again and again in the series. In the photographs, the fruits are rotting and yet new spring shoots and tiny flowers often push up beside them out of the ground. I aim to create both formal and symbolic tensions in the series, such as flatness and depth, randomness and order, detail and whole, natural and constructed, real and fantastical, lushness and decay.
The photographs are all made with a 4 x 5” view camera and range in size between 17 x 22” and 44 x 54.”