Six Apple's
2025
40 x 50cm
Oil on linen
Six apples are arranged within an abstract decorative frame , not as a still life, but as a taxonomy of states. Each apple occupies a different dimension of existence: the familiar red, fully present and immediately recognizable; its negative counterpart, an outline that holds the shape of an apple while refusing its substance; one rendered in the tone of human flesh, collapsing the boundary between fruit and body; one dissolved into near-transparency, existing as little more than air and suggestion; one consumed by black, present only as absence; and one reduced to a pure circle, stripped of all apple ness until only geometry remains.The frame surrounding them is not a border but a field — its abstract ornamentation neither classical nor functional, holding these six states in suspension without hierarchy or narrative. The apple, one of the most loaded symbols in Western visual culture, is here multiplied and drained of meaning until what remains is not the object, but the question of what makes something recognizable at all.