Supplements 7 (Supplements 7: Orange Printmaking)

Centered like a quiet revelation, the halved citrus becomes both still life and anatomical metaphor—its luminous pulp rendered with meticulous warmth against a field of subdued, stony grays. The composition stages a dialogue between tenderness and abrasion: the fruit’s open interior reads as an intimate threshold, while the surrounding dark, rippling planes suggest a landscape of weight, time, and erosion. Light seems to emanate from within the flesh rather than fall upon it, turning ordinary sustenance into a small, resilient ember of vitality held in a world that feels mineral and indifferent. In this tension, the work meditates on exposure—how sweetness, once split open, becomes simultaneously offering and vulnerability.