2010

A process like orange peeling is overlooked because of its mundanity. But such common functions continually reveal moral and philosophical complexities. An orange takes us through iterations of fecundity, vitality, inscrutability, and mortality in its symbolic relation to human experience. Peeling one in the world's environments, while pointedly using color to highlight and subdue elements in a composition, will reveal and obscure these relationships. Only by consuming an orange do we gain a more complete understanding of it; as it becomes part of us our experience becomes cyclical rather than linear. See that it is not destroyed; it forever remains an immolation to our subsequent life.

All photographs are 16x20" C-prints, printed manually in the Corcoran College of Art's color darkroom.