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Etrog — the wandering fruit
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For thousands of years citrus trees have held sway over gardeners. They were among the first plants to have ever been cultivated and their fragrant flowers, glowing fruits and gleaming foliage have attracted devoted followers who have gone to great lengths to ensure they thrive. It puts the current infestation of scale on my lemon, lime and orange into perspective.
Last weekend I devoted several hours to ridding my citrus foliage from these destructive insects. It’s a slow-going and sticky job but you couldn’t call it particularly taxing. Scale is easily wiped off with your thumb.
One of the copper plate engravings orchestrated by J.C. Volkamer
For a work of conceptual art, Roelof Louw’s
Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) is unusually generous. Some 5,800 oranges are stacked neatly in a wooden frame on the floor of a gallery. Then visitors are allowed to help themselves to the fruit. By the time I saw it in the big conceptual art show at Tate Britain in 2016, the pyramid had dwindled: it looked more like a ball pit for toddlers, as improvised by a greengrocer.
Louw’s oranges, in their abundance and with their more or less uniform shapes, are everyday things; you might see them piled like this, if not in such quantities, on any high street in Britain. But perhaps, in carrying them into the unfamiliar setting of a gallery and then constructing a cairn out of them,
Inside page of
Peter Beard published by TASCHEN.
Why it’s worth it: When the writer, photographer, and all-around bon vivant Peter Beard died this year at age 82, he left an indelible mark on the art world and everyone he met, from the wilds of Africa to the seedy bars of New York City. His life was marked by a ferocious pursuit of adventure, photographing endangered species and documenting his travels in beautifully intimate diaristic form, collaging photographs with drawings and notation.
A gadfly who was equally at home as a social fixture, Beard delved into fashion photography, and collaborated with the likes of Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, while living up to his nickname as Walkabout, cutting a fine figure with his year-round tan, blue eyes, and revolving door of beautiful women at his side. This book captures the spirit and craft of a man who lived large in every sense.
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