The Unending Sweetness of Painted Fruit
Amina Khan | ARTIC | 11th February 2025
A meditation on still life painting. Still lifes often featured game birds or fruit, items that for most were unattainable. Meat was expensive, perfect fruit rare and items like chillis unknown and exotic. Even though we now live amidst super abundance, we recognise in these paintings a message of impermanence, even precariousness. Things won’t always be this good. So, feed the eye with these luscious items now because “each one will eventually be transformed by a knife.”.