Frankenfruit

“Fruit has been a beacon of rich indulgence for centuries. Depicting beauty, abundance, lust, and fertility, fruit has been represented as God's gift to humans throughout art history. Inspired by Bosch's ‘Garden of Earthly Delights,’ I was fascinated by how fruit could be a bad thing. Fruit, like any indulgence, is a double-edged sword—too much beauty, lust, fertility is a sin. With this in mind, I test fruit's timeless beauty by putting an absurd, disturbing spin on its environment and manipulating the fruit itself. With nods to Catholicism, I aim to reinvent how fruit is perceived, in contrast to its glorified, holy history.

Whether it's fruit smashed onto a wall or creating an entirely new fruit, I manipulate and destroy nature's most pure creation (photographed with a sticky camera of course).” — Henry Sodt