Situated halfway up our garden there is now a new art installation. I know that its title is rather wacky but we call it "Apples in a Wheelbarrow". It partly represents the fruitfulness of the earth. I collected all the the apples myself . They had fallen from our trees. In fact, I collected three full wheelbarrows.
After filling several jars with apple sauce, giving bags of apples away to neighbours and baking apple pies and apple crumble, we still had a mountain of apples to deal with. What was to be done with them?
Then one day - as I was sitting on the toilet contemplating the meaning of life - I had a sudden flash of inspiration. Art! I visualised a wheelbarrow with apples piled up within it and that very afternoon I set about my task like Damien Hirst creating "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" back in 1991. But instead of a tiger shark, an aquarium and a vat of formaldehyde I had a wheelbarrow and a glut of apples. Small difference. Artists have to work with what they have got.
Though the new installation pays homage to autumn's fruitfulness, it also suggests decay. Within the pile, I deliberately included a number of very bruised apples that are already deteriorating - going mushy and brown like the soil from whence they came.
Your water color version is really very nice. I may have to download the app and see what it will do for cacti.
ReplyDeleteWaterlogue costs next to nothing Allison. Give it a try!
DeleteThat is a painting if I ever saw one!! The colors, one by one, on top of one another are a magnificent poem to autumn. Bravo! I wish you could save it just like that. Without displacing Bo and Peep, of course. BTW, how many apple trees do you have?
ReplyDeleteWe have four apple trees BBTB!
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i love the water colour! what does the side view look like in water colour?
ReplyDeleteif you wanted to keep your installation, you could maybe throw a few buckets of acrylic over it :)
I don't know who said it but I have always remembered the saying - "All Art is Ephemeral"and so it is with "Apples in a Wheelbarrow". Nothing lasts forever.
DeleteSo with an excess of apples, you might as well have a little fun with them.
ReplyDeleteIf you were in my garden I could use them like snowballs!
DeleteYou bet! With your aim I'd be safe.
DeleteWhat a beautiful piece of art you have done! This is my favorite of all the pictures you have shown us using the Waterlogue app.
ReplyDeleteMay I say that you have excellent taste Bonnie!
DeleteI've got the wheelbarrow, I've got the apples. I'm going to create a forgery.
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S funny.
DeleteIf you do that Sly Sue my solicitor will be in touch!
DeleteYou could have made cider. But an artist's mind does, of course, work in artsy ways and not along such mundane lines as making booze.
ReplyDeleteYes. There are much loftier and more noble things than getting drunk Meike!
DeleteI was going to say what a brilliant painter you are, until I read some of the other comments ! ( I had heard of Waterlogue, but didn't remember you using it before !)
ReplyDeleteMaybe I could paint a picture like that but it would take me many hours. With Waterlogue I did it in two seconds Frances.
DeleteHow interesting! A great effect achieved!
ReplyDeleteThank you Madame.
DeleteI like the original photo and the enhanced version. The colors are gorgeous. You have such a good eye. :)
ReplyDeleteYes. Over the other one I wear an eye patch like a pirate.
DeleteOh now., that’s terrific ! I could easily frame it and have it on the wall. Must get Tony to try a few more of them. Very jealous of all your apples.
ReplyDeleteSend me a thousand Aussie dollars and I'll send you a crate! I cannot guarantee their condoition when they arrive in Brissie.
DeleteIt is very artistic and much more pleasing to the eye that much, if not all, of the work that has ever won the Turner Prize.
ReplyDeleteI thought The Turner Prize was restricted to woodturners and mattress turners.
DeleteAny of those would make a good jigsaw puzzle!
ReplyDeleteDon't be so silly sillygirl!
DeleteLove the watercolour! Maybe you could donate some apples to a food bank or soup kitchen or the equivalent for the homeless to make a giant crumble.
ReplyDeleteThank you for that idea Addy. I have given plenty of food to the Sheffield Cathedral food bank - I might phone them to ask about the apples.
DeleteYou could have made cider!
ReplyDeleteApples make cider? No way! Somebody should have told me.
DeleteWho is going to clean the wheel barrow out when that lot have gone mouldy?
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I am hoping to hire a giddy grandma from Brighton.
DeleteNice contrast of colours. Any apple worms in there?
ReplyDeleteNot just worms but moth larvae too. It took me ages to add them to the sculpture.
DeleteI think it was a great idea to make an installation of autumn fruitfulness. And the treatment you've given the photo is perfect. It would look nice illustrating a feature on apples in a magazine...
ReplyDeleteOr in "Wheelbarrows Weekly" Jacqui.
DeleteYou'd better auction it quickly!
ReplyDeleteSend me £500 and it's your Steve! It will look so cool in your bijou London garden.
DeleteNice, very nice. But I know you are new to the art world, so may I advise that you need a more pretentious title? Allow me: "Aiming At A Void That Signifies Precisely The Non-Being Of What It Represents".
ReplyDeleteDeep.
Very deep.
The Waterlogue is amazing.
Thank you for the title suggestion Vivian. I don't know what it means but I will buy it.
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