A sculptural series,
Winner, Boynes Monthly Art Award, August Edition, 2024 (Australia)
This series
begins with the banana as a simple, recognizable form.
Through material
and scale, the object shifts away from its everyday meaning and starts to take
on other associations—bodily, symbolic, and sometimes uncomfortable.
Several works
draw from mythological figures such as Ganymede, Icarus, and Priapus. These
references are not illustrated directly, but appear through changes in
form—stretching, distortion, and imbalance. A key element is the surface. The
banana’s natural skin is replaced with a material that feels closer to the
body. This change blurs the line between object and flesh.
In some pieces,
elements of commercial imagery appear—such as chewing gum logos—introducing a
different layer of meaning. These references sit alongside the mythological
ones, creating a tension between something familiar and something more complex.
What holds the
series together is this instability—where the form shifts between humor and
discomfort, attraction and excess, without settling into a single meaning.