Artist Kathleen Ryan creates a conversation between the beautiful and the grotesque in her oversized sculptures of mold-covered fruit.
Ryan turns blight to beauty, using precious and semi-precious stones like malachite, garnet, opal, tiger’s eye, and smoky quartz to form a design of common rot on beautiful, ripe fruit.
Her larger-than-life foam bases are modeled on ripe fruits such as lemons and cherries.
She uses variously-sized faceted stones; stones cut into spheres, cubes, and tetrahedrons; stones carved into shapes, for example, blossoms; as well as raw rocks and seashells.
Ryan is redefining the interpretation of rotting fruit — bruised, green and white mold, even a gathering of fruit flies become sparkling masterpieces as beauty turns into ugly and back.
Her “Bad Fruit” sculptures are a representation of the innate beauty and life of decay.
“The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there’s an ugliness and unease that comes with them,” Ryan says. 
“They’re not just opulent, there’s an inherent sense of decline built into them.”
More of Kathleen Ryan‘s amazing work can be found at New York Times and the Green Art Gallery.
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So is yours — that’s why I follow you!
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Oh dear, you’re so welcome. Your site is so interesting 💐
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Ha! Ain’t it the truth? Precious stones, no less!
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Thank you for sharing, my friend!
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I never thought mould could be so interesting.
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🍇🍑🍊🍒🥭 SO TRUE DEAR SISTERS, ART BY KATHLEEN MAKES JEWELS WITH THE MOLD OF THE FRUIT. Something more about Kathleen: https://www.galeriemagazine.com/kathleen-ryan/
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I so agree. There must be a crossover from beauty to ungly and back. Making trash a treasure and all that. Artists always have ways of bringing a deep thought into fruition that others can see and (hopefully) understand.
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Amazingly different, isn’t she? Thank you.
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What kind of a brain thinks up something like this? I’m amazed at the inventiveness of artists.
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Wow! Fantastic.
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When you look from further away it looks like real mold, but when you look close you can see all the beautiful gems. I don’t think many people would want it in their homes, unless you want to shock them.
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Oh Indeed … I’m not sure that even with topaz and opals I’d want one in my sun room …
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This is “different” but the gemstones make it look better.
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Haha … I feel you …
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Wow … no lemons for me tomorrow … colourfully intriguing Claudia …
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