The Right Orange, 2020
In 2020, a small study called “The Right Orange” focused on mandarin peel. My Dutch grandfather carefully peels and calmly eats five mandarins every morning. Every time I come across a mandarin peel on the street, I wonder how and by whom it was peeled. Perhaps it was due to the isolation of the COVID pandemic that I was no longer satisfied with observing and photographing objects, but felt the need to physically express the study in material form. I felt the urgency to work with my hands and started reproducing found peels in plaster on a true scale, trying to approximate the colour and texture of the peels. I see the peels as a personification of my grandfather, a material proof of someone's presence.
In 2020, a small study called “The Right Orange” focused on mandarin peel. My Dutch grandfather carefully peels and calmly eats five mandarins every morning. Every time I come across a mandarin peel on the street, I wonder how and by whom it was peeled. Perhaps it was due to the isolation of the COVID pandemic that I was no longer satisfied with observing and photographing objects, but felt the need to physically express the study in material form. I felt the urgency to work with my hands and started reproducing found peels in plaster on a true scale, trying to approximate the colour and texture of the peels. I see the peels as a personification of my grandfather, a material proof of someone's presence.
Set of 5 cards, 15x10cm, two colour risograph print, munken pure cream 300gr Edition of 18, 2020