Apple Moons
Acrylic paint on paper, Photoshop
In ancient stories, apples often cause war (“the apple of discord”), distraction (Atalanta’s golden apples), or even all human misery (the biblical “forbidden fruit”). However, there were no separate terms for “apple” in the original languages of Ancient Greek mythology or the Bible. “Fruit” was all they said. The originally innocent apple became the guilty fruit in our culture as a result of translation errors and aesthetic traditions that evolved very late in art history. In this work, the apple is exonerated of all charges and admitted to Heaven.
Inspired by Galileo's drawings of the Moon:
