Giant sculptures of mouldy fruit made from gemstones and found objects #ArtTuesday

A moldy lemon!

via Creative Boom

Picking out hues of green, blue and white, the enormous lemons, oranges and pears are painstakingly constructed from breaking down “found” objects: old necklaces, bracelets and even gem-clad vases and home accessories. “The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there’s an ugliness and unease that comes with them,” Ryan recently told the New York Times.

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