Adventures in the Geometry of Fruit and Vegetables

Geometry is regarded as ‘sacred’ in many cultural and religious traditions, often as a kind of intermediary between the material and the divine. I share the sense of awe at the beauty and the necessities within geometric forms, but that is not a dichotomy I am comfortable with. If there is a realm of the ‘spiritual’, is it really the antithesis of the material and the organic? And need it be devoid of a sense of humour?

With that in mind, I embarked on a series of ‘adventures’ which combine sacred geometries with organic matter. This involved adapting and reworking the geometric forms so I could be as sure as possible that I understood how they worked, and then recreating them, as it were, out of photographs of fruit and vegetables.

In the first set of images, I have adapted and reworked an example of the so-called ‘spiritual geometry’ of the Spanish painter Pablo Palazuelo, and reconstructed it using photographs of fruits like raspberries and lychees (which have, in a sense, an extraordinary ‘geometry’ of their own).