Bananas are often polarizing. Whether as a snack or subject matter, people love them or hate them. I see them often replicated in the art world due to their particular, yet simple shape making them a recognizable form. Their panels and lines, have a consistency that makes them easy to manufacture and instantly known by the viewer.
Besides their flavor and texture, which I love but many find repulsive, bananas come with weighty conceptuality due to the controversial production methods and history riddled with human rights violations. In an art piece, the banana says a lot. When it is used to make rich people richer, it says even more.
I made this banana in the metal shop at the Evergreen State College while getting my Undergraduate degree. It was an exploration in fabricating, created as part of a metal still life. The still life consisted of a copper orange, a scrap metal wine glass, nuts and bolts grapes and a wine bottle made from a circular saw blade cut up and reassembled. At the time, I was thinking a lot about what it meant to create soft things out of hard materials, ones that feel opposing to the form, a theme that has continued in the years since.
The collection sold, however, the banana was not part of the final display because I got too attached to it.
Now, many years later, I am ready to pass along this little treasure to a new home. If you’re interested in banana shapes art, it’s your chance to buy a banana sculpture that actually supports an emerging artist… a real, living human who eats bananas for breakfast and dreams of putting all her bills on autopay.
Your purchase won’t just make a statement but, it could change this artist’s life in unimaginable ways.
$100,000 Banana
2007
rust, mild steel
Made at The Evergreen State College
Bananas are often polarizing. Whether as a snack or subject matter, people love them or hate them. I see them often replicated in the art world due to their particular, yet simple shape making them a recognizable form. Their panels and lines, have a consistency that makes them easy to manufacture and instantly known by the viewer.
Besides their flavor and texture, which I love but many find repulsive, bananas come with weighty conceptuality due to the controversial production methods and history riddled with human rights violations. In an art piece, the banana says a lot. When it is used to make rich people richer, it says even more.
I made this banana in the metal shop at the Evergreen State College while getting my Undergraduate degree. It was an exploration in fabricating, created as part of a metal still life. The still life consisted of a copper orange, a scrap metal wine glass, nuts and bolts grapes and a wine bottle made from a circular saw blade cut up and reassembled. At the time, I was thinking a lot about what it meant to create soft things out of hard materials, ones that feel opposing to the form, a theme that has continued in the years since.
The collection sold, however, the banana was not part of the final display because I got too attached to it.
Now, many years later, I am ready to pass along this little treasure to a new home. If you’re interested in banana shapes art, it’s your chance to buy a banana sculpture that actually supports an emerging artist… a real, living human who eats bananas for breakfast and dreams of putting all her bills on autopay.
Your purchase won’t just make a statement but, it could change this artist’s life in unimaginable ways.
$100,000 Banana
2007
rust, mild steel
Made at The Evergreen State College
