Juicy Fruit

Acrylics on canvas 150 x 100cm. I remember being a child, watching my mother stretch every cent to keep us fed without breaking an already fragile family budget. Together with my father, they found a simple solution: buying crates of fruit from roadside farmers just outside the city. Those fruits—fresh, imperfect, real—became our desserts, our snacks, our way of growing up nourished.

In this piece, a vibrant arrangement of artificial fruits drenched in sugar-like colors rests inside a disposable tin tray. Mangos, pineapples, grapes, limes, and strawberries appear seductive, almost irresistible—yet they are hollow, synthetic, exaggerated.

What once sustained us in its purest form is now replaced by imitation. This composition becomes a reflection of our quiet addiction to sweetness, and a growing disconnection from what is real: real food, real fruit, real flavor… the real world.