Apples Taste Blue To Me

Since leaving my Christian faith a question has remained unanswered. Without God, how can I trust my senses? How can I know that the world I experience - the objects and events, the colours, tones, textures, and tastes - is anything like reality?

During the recent lockdowns, with a head full of strange ideas and questions about reality, I began to focus intensely on a single 'thing', a red apple. Through a repeated and obsessive series of visual investigations, I playfully push at the boundaries of my own seeing; deconstructing, zooming into, manipulating, and visually reimagining an apple, each piece attempting to challenge my intuitive sense of 'things'.

Of all the objects that I could point my questions toward, an apple seemed apt. It was an apple that caused Adam and Eve's expulsion from Eden, and an apple that caused Newton to define gravity. Apples are mundane and symbolic, simple and infinitely complex.



1 + 1 = 1
Framed giclee print, 50 x 70

Untitled #1

Inverted Spectrum

DNA Sequence (how to make an apple)
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DNA Sequence, Copying Error (detail)
Series of 25 unique works, Laser Prints, A3, Framed

Emergence





“Apples taste blue to me”

Synesthete response #1

Diffraction #1








“Some human voices taste like apples.”

Synesthete response #2

Diffraction #2

Diffraction #4

Diffraction #3

“Apple as a concept always made sense to me because the letter A is red. It tastes too crisp, though. A is a soft letter, but apples are hard and crunchy. They taste yellow, usually, and the sound of crunching on them can vary but is usually a blue sound with little triangles in it. And although A is shaped like a triangle, it is nothing close to feeling that way.”

Synesthete response #3

Diffraction #5

Breakdown  #1

Orchard #1

Orchard #2

Breakdown #2

Gestaltzerfall (Shape Decomposition)

Properties #1

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