A Photo – The Orange

A large group of children is sitting in a circle around a wooden frame filled with numerous oranges. The children appear to be engaged and focused on the oranges in the center.

Art at Tate Britain: “Oranges, wood sculpture; this work is created from 5800 oranges, and raises questions about ephemerali​ty, time and decay. Visitors are invited to take an orange and as a result the piece literally dematerial​ises and changes through visitor participat​ion.”

An orange is placed on a stone ledge overlooking a river with a cityscape in the background. The cityscape includes a tall modern building, the iconic clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, and the London Eye. The sky is partly cloudy, and the date "20/04/2007" is displayed in the bottom left corner of the image.

I’d had two oranges (my wife’s and mine), but I ate one before I took the photo.

 
I recently went to London and visited Tate Britain. I was curious about this work and of course it is no longer there, but at the front desk they knew about it. I suppose it was getting expensive to maintain it.

 

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