Ephemeral Conditions – Fruit City Scape

Timelapse video:

Statement Message:

Our motivation behind the ‘Fruitscape’ is to create a cityscape out of fresh fruits that are sliced and stacked. The layout of the fruit will appear colorful and positive in the first documentation right after the installation. Over the course of two weeks, the fruitscapes will start to rot, the colors will tarnish and the structure of the stacked fruit will deteriorate. We aim to convey a heighten contrast between a natural piece of fruit and transform its original state by cutting and making it into a man-made installation. Therefore, similar to the way humans construct buildings in cityscapes and transform the original state to man-made interfered objects that are not sustainable and evidently conclude to the Earth being mistreated and destroyed. The fruit city scape is a symbol for the process from the state of being completely pure to rotten which will be much more fast paced. In the final stage of the work would be completely open to nature consuming the corrupted state and the progression of the moldy form. We interpret that birds will eat from it and dependable weather conditions will manipulate it further. Therefore, it symbolically represents a continuous cycle that a man-made creation will be bound to be inevitably demolished once it was let into the hands of nature.

Reference Artists:

Sakir Gokcebag:

Emma Ressel:

Sam Taylor Wood:

Moodboard:

Process:

We began by choosing fruits that were very colorful to create a colossal contrast between fresh and rotten fruit. Therefore, we used a variety of fruits such as oranges, red apples, green apples, bananas, and clementines. We sliced the fruits in various sizes to distort the original shape of the fruit and constructed a layered formation. We inserted wooden skewers in the center of the stacked fruits to become a support structure that connects the rows together. Hence, this altered the perception of a recognizable vegetation form and turned it into a new fruit. We didn’t want to waste any part of the fruit so we incorporated the use of the entirety of the fruit from the stem to the skin. These parts of the fruit are commonly not consumed and therefore wasted or thrown out.

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