The Gallery of Engagements · permanent collection

Picture of a Banana

Very accurate. Beautifully lit. Two-dimensional.

Banana, observed.
Consulting engagement on canvas, six weeks. You can show it to your friends. You never really taste it.

the rest of the wall

The other room

No frames in here. One banana, and it is yours: it ripens on its own schedule, it browns whether it is convenient or not, and every mark it picks up along the way stays on the record. Owning it is the only way in.

“You might get a very accurate picture, but it’s only two‑dimensional. You might have a lot of pictures on your walls — I’ve worked in bananas, I’ve worked in peaches, I’ve worked in grapes — but you never really taste it.”
Steve Jobs, MIT Sloan, spring 1992 · a vegetarian, so it was never going to be steak