I am captivated by ‘The Secret Lives of Fruits and Vegetables’, a recent still life series by photographer Maciek Jasik. The thick exteriors of produce are punctured, allowing vibrant smoke to spill out and billow into mysterious clouds of colour. The juxtaposition of hue is beautiful and each photograph creates a surreal, magical little world where one can truly believe that an eggplant or a carnival squash has a secret life beyond the grocery store bin.
As Maciek puts it, “until only very recently, each held its own mystique, mythology, symbolism and connection to the culture and afterlife… this series aims to reintroduce these mystical, invisible qualities to fruits and vegetables that have been lost amidst the clamor of nutritional statistics.” I don’t think I will ever look at produce the same way again (while remaining forever hopeful a little turquoise mist may appear during cooking prep…)
(images via maciek jasik; spotted on designboom)