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From the Top Down, 2020, Digital photograph
From The Top Down, 2020 Sugar glass cast pineapple, cut pineapple, on marble. This work first existed as an ephemeral sculpture as an iconoclastic gesture.
From the Top Down, presents a metaphorical image wrestling with the contemporary consequences of historically unrecognized, uncompensated labor, privilege, generational wealth, and hospitality. The European Aristocracy popularized the pineapple’s symbolic meaning as they were able to afford the rare fruit. In the Southern, US, sculptures of pineapples were placed atop plantations extending an invitation to wealthy, white, travelers to visit the plantation. As the symbol of hospitality continues to be the pineapple, so too does the consolidation of wealth; due to ongoing inequities in the compensation of labor.