The “Nice Pair” series plays off of the similarities between fruits and breasts. I view my still life paintings as a form of portraiture, with the fruit standing in for the human body. The cheeky way they are “sisters not twins.” The pores and protruding stems. The impulse to reach out and squeeze them, to gauge their ripeness by how much they yield to our touch. I think perhaps because the way people (mostly men) handle breasts is similar to how people (mostly women) handle fruit at the grocery store. Appraising, weighing, testing, squeezing, and ultimately consuming or rotting.

The fruits in the “Nice Pair” series are intentionally varied, ranging from petite oranges to heavy mangoes. They are a celebration of body diversity, aging, and desire within queer femme relationships. Femme bodies are so often censored, from the lack of images of childbirth to Meta’s obsession with hiding our nipples to the ridiculous laws that make burlesque performers and strippers have to buy different costumes for different states. By using fruit as a stand-in for breasts, I am able to circumvent censorship and revel in the beauty of queer femme bodies.

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