"Firm, fleshy, glistening with juice, this is an apple you want to eat. Looking at it from another perspective, the center of the halved fruit reveals a face-like form, raising the suggestion that humanity can be seen as an integral part of nature."
~ Chris Johnson & Barbara Bullock-Wilson
from Wynn Bullock: 55, Phaidon Press, 2001
"Dad called this photograph one of his “seed pictures”. He once said, “It is not that I am uninterested in telling visual stories about people and their everyday lives. I just like to leave this kind of work to others. What I prefer is to trace the hidden roots of humanity deeply embedded in nature.” Years after making this image, he explored this theme more deeply and explicitly in what turned out to be one of his last and most evocative bodies of work."
~ Barbara Bullock-Wilson
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This photograph of Wynn's perfectly captures his philosophy. It’s not just about an apple; it’s about the essence of life, the origins, and the hidden connections that bind us to the natural world. It took years and years, and many, many photographs for Wynn to arrive here. But you can see it culminate in these later photographs as one of his most evocative bodies of work.
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