13 November 2018

Installation

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. 

42 comments:

  1. Your water color version is really very nice. I may have to download the app and see what it will do for cacti.

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    1. Waterlogue costs next to nothing Allison. Give it a try!

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  2. That 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?

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    1. We have four apple trees BBTB!

      (Big Bear's Teddy Bear)

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  3. i love the water colour! what does the side view look like in water colour?
    if you wanted to keep your installation, you could maybe throw a few buckets of acrylic over it :)

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    1. 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.

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  4. So with an excess of apples, you might as well have a little fun with them.

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    1. If you were in my garden I could use them like snowballs!

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    2. You bet! With your aim I'd be safe.

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  5. What a beautiful piece of art you have done! This is my favorite of all the pictures you have shown us using the Waterlogue app.

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    1. May I say that you have excellent taste Bonnie!

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  6. I've got the wheelbarrow, I've got the apples. I'm going to create a forgery.

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    1. If you do that Sly Sue my solicitor will be in touch!

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  7. You 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.

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    1. Yes. There are much loftier and more noble things than getting drunk Meike!

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  8. I 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 !)

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    1. Maybe I could paint a picture like that but it would take me many hours. With Waterlogue I did it in two seconds Frances.

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  9. How interesting! A great effect achieved!

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  10. I like the original photo and the enhanced version. The colors are gorgeous. You have such a good eye. :)

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    1. Yes. Over the other one I wear an eye patch like a pirate.

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  11. Oh 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.

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    1. Send me a thousand Aussie dollars and I'll send you a crate! I cannot guarantee their condoition when they arrive in Brissie.

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  12. It 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.

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    1. I thought The Turner Prize was restricted to woodturners and mattress turners.

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  13. Any of those would make a good jigsaw puzzle!

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  14. Love 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.

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    1. Thank 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.

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  15. You could have made cider!

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    1. Apples make cider? No way! Somebody should have told me.

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  16. Who is going to clean the wheel barrow out when that lot have gone mouldy?
    Briony
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    1. I am hoping to hire a giddy grandma from Brighton.

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  17. Nice contrast of colours. Any apple worms in there?

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    1. Not just worms but moth larvae too. It took me ages to add them to the sculpture.

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  18. I 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...

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  19. You'd better auction it quickly!

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    1. Send me £500 and it's your Steve! It will look so cool in your bijou London garden.

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  20. Nice, 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".

    Deep.

    Very deep.

    The Waterlogue is amazing.

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    1. Thank you for the title suggestion Vivian. I don't know what it means but I will buy it.

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