Watermelon Head, 1981
Palladium Print Image 0010
"...why a watermelon? My idea, 'Beyond the Frame' suggests a photographic space similar to the mind's own imaginative space: fuzzy in outline but sharp in the center of vision; spherical, not rectangular, think of a dream, that's the way the space looks.
Watermelon Head was the progenitor of a series I call 'Watermelon Dreams'- dreams because of the spherical nature of the space; the watermelon lends the graphics of the stripes and a sculptural element of the shape..."