Exposing The Inside

pomelo, pomegranate, sumo mandarin, avocado, transparent thread,  and linen thread.

sizes vary between 2" x 8"

2025

In my new series of work - Exposing The Inside - I am revealing the underbelly, the side you aren’t supposed to see. I cut the fruit carefully, eat the flesh, scrape the inside of the skin, and turn it inside out before stitching it back together. I am thinking about vulnerability, healing, historical trauma, and environmental collapse.

The fruit objects are illusive in their tenderness, and subversion. The texture and hue of each skin reveals endless variation in a continuation of decay. The meaning behind these natural forms changed by my interventions is ambiguous because the act of stitching can reflect mending or violence.

 Inspired by Zoe Leonard’s Strange Fruit series.