Oranges

a material study, 2019

Orange Notes 01 sundial wheel spiral circle eye things that tell time

Orange Notes 02 fruit afflicted with an illness, a more beautiful pox or painted to fool like a fruit orchard attending a masquerade ball  

Orange Notes 03 female adoration of the circle

Orange Notes 04 some oranges are in danger of falling over

Orange Notes 05 oranges poised mid-juggle or discarded after a clown act

Orange Notes 06 it has become a season of oranges, by surprise, by accident, the studio is covered in peels and the smell of citrus is thick

Orange Notes 07 sometimes I think I am rid of them, and then one winds up in my shoe

Orange Notes 08 two oranges are dice: objects of chance, objects of counting, roll the die, to die is to have a medieval orgasm, 'la petit mort', little death, to end and begin again

Orange Notes 09 an orange sits on the lip of a bottle; Remove, replace. Action, inaction, orange like a helium balloon, hot air balloon, UFO orbiting earth, a blue bottle is a pedestal for fruit

Orange Notes 10 today I will wash my oranges until they are shinier than the studio floor 

Orange Notes 11 I am becoming an orange one arm at a time

Orange Notes 12 to juice requires a yellow sponge and one orange sponge, a blue opaque wire, and a pink translucent tube. Of course, also two oranges, protruding nipples preferred.