PEACH IS A VERB
2024, series, oil on wood panel, dimensions variable
“Oh fruit blessed above all others Good before, in the middle and after the meal, But perfect behind.” Francesco Berni, Peach Poem, 1522
“Do I dare to eat a peach?” T.S.Eliot, The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock, 1911
“The tomato sheds a light of its own. It too is globular like the sun, majestic like the sun - but benignly so.” Pablo Neruda. Ode to Tomato, 1954
“For my Zaretsky, as I said,
Found refuge from the storm of life,
Beneath his cherries and acacias,
Like Horace, peaceful and sagacious,
Plants cabbages, and free from strife,
Breeds ducks and geese, while at his knee
The children learn their ABC.” Alexander Pushkin ,Eugene Onegin, 1833