Is This Living?, 2020
Single Channel Video
Silver Gelatin Emulsion, Apple, Mold
Duration: 30 seconds

Is This Living? (2020) is a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It consists of an apple with an eye printed on it through the silver gelatin process.

When did the apple stop living–when it stopped growing? When it was picked from the tree? The moment it was cut in half only to be smothered in silver iodide? What about days later when it still felt crisp enough to consume, then continued to change?

Each day the eye aged as the surface of the apple wrinkled, which finally became engulfed by new growth preventing the eye from seeing or being seen.

If we are not growing, are we still living?