“Forbidden Fruit”

#27: Men, 2022

Copic Marker on Paper, Fall 2022

As you escape on holiday to an idyllic English village, seeking respite from crippling grief and guilt, nourish your appetite with the land's natural harvest, but beware of "forbidden fruit" (per the locals' unsolicited advice). Your temporary country home may offer an abundance of sweet, ripe apples from an adjoining tree, presenting pixelated accents of speckled red, pink, and yellow against the backdrop of a gouache-like landscape, a smeared spectrum of brilliant greens from which an unsettling presence may suddenly emerge.