Avocado

Half an avocado and three quarters of a lime walked into a bar…  Actually they sat on my kitchen counter looking odd so I made photographs of them.  Several.  Then, of course, threw half the photographs away.   

I liked their oddness but they needed something.  I set them on a shelf and looked at them.  Then put them in a drawer and only looked when I needed to open the drawer.  Eventually I thought to paint on the photographs.  The first was bad but the second wasn’t nor the third.  I printed the first again and painted it again.  Better.

Deciding the sequence and placing them into a book took a while.  The foldout page for the third image involved mistakes and a waste of good paper but finally worked.  

The book stands open so you can see all three images at once.  Sort of like those three fold cases people used to display family photos in, set atop their piano or their sideboard.

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Avocado is a unique book. 10 x 11. Three gouache on archival inkjet prints, window mounted in Stonehenge book and museum board covers. 2025.