How do you like apples? Can Sun’s playful sculptures emerge from a bright red fruit? Colossal



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If anyone ever said that May sun don’t play with his food, thank goodness he didn’t listen. The London-based Chinese artist meticulously carves red apples into geometric cross sections and connecting chains, sometimes adding accessories such as brass hinges. Delicate slices are mixed together to form circles or the peel carefully removed to reveal twisted, rope-like shapes, as if the apple were caught in a net.

« I he had a really difficult childhood. For a long time, humor has been a way to protect my self-esteem,” Sun tells Colossal, sharing that she chose to focus on apples because the unexpected arises from the ordinary. “My work tries to break expectations logics of the audience, which makes the audience wonder if the world is absurd.The more everyday the object, the greater the shock when the audience sees its different forms.

Sun enjoys playfully reinterpreting all sorts of everyday objects into eerie works of art, such as a wearable temporary sculpture made from dandelions that mimics brass knuckles. His work will be included in group exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai this July and August, and you can follow the updates ON Instagram. (through BoingBoing)

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