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Cut Papaya with Watermelons
Photograph by M Gax, 2004
 

A still life of halved papaya and watermelons presents organic mass as sculptural form. The papaya’s seed-crowded cavity, set against exposed flesh and rind, stresses density, texture, and mass, invoking longstanding associations of fertility, nourishment, and plenitude.