Facet Fruit

Lumen & Logic

A single piece of fruit, cut from paper and printed. One of ten subjects — pear, apple, lemon, cherry, fig, avocado, peach, plum, pomegranate or strawberry — is generated from a half-width profile, then simplified by arc length into a straight-edged polygon whose vertices crowd where the profile turns fastest, so the silhouette reads as hand-cut rather than drawn: long straight runs down the flanks, short edges at the shoulders, and a subtle left-right asymmetry so no two sides match. Its interior is recursively guillotined into a handful of large convex flat planes — every cut runs the full width of whatever region it divides, always across that region's longer axis, so a tall fruit is banded horizontally first and each band is then cut vertically — and the planes are painted inside a clip of the silhouette, so the cuts appear to run edge to edge with no outline, no gap and no gradient. Each plane takes one flat colour by quantising a Lambert light model evaluated on an ellipsoid inscribed in the fruit, so tone descends coherently away from the light and the rim always turns dark — a picture with no gradient anywhere still reads as a round solid — with a seeded jitter that breaks the strict ordering by a step or two so it looks hand-mixed. Over the top the sheet is printed: a fine clumping per-pixel grain across fruit and paper alike, a granular dissolve that erodes every edge into scattered specks of fill outside and paper inside, and a clumped scatter of bright flecks — pale in the lit regions, hot red in the deep ones — dense across the middle of the body and sparse at its ends. A tapered near-black stem flares out of the top, and a leaf, a calyx or a spiked coronet finishes the fruits that carry one.

Medium

Generative algorithm, archival pigment print

Dimensions

60 × 90 cm