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Triangular Apple – The world-changing forth apple hypothesis
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Published: May 14 2013

あごがでかい/ 2010

'As a sweet apple reddens at the end of a branch, at the tip of the topmost bough, the apple-pickers miss it. No, they don't miss it; their hands can't reach it.' In this fragmentary epithalamium of Sappho the apple is both a sweet fruit and a token of erotic desire, a temptation to indiscretion and a symbol of courtship. Anyone would extend a hand to the round apple praised for its sweet syrup. However, a triangular apple would be scorned and rejected. This is because such an apple is seen as an impossibility. We want to question this desire for sweetness by subverting the idealised round apple into a triangle. Or, on the other hand, we want to gaze at desires that have been covered-up or hidden. Is desire always characterised by an attraction to sweetness? What does the poisoned apple taste like? Did Adam and Eve really have to eat the forbidden fruit? What human progress has been brought by Newton's ideas? Whilst, with our technological knowhow, the apple left behind above Sappho's head could probably be readily picked, what does this ease mean for us? Desire; unconsciousness; myth; the body; /vision; sexual love; hunger; bodily warmth; affection; suppression; self-consciou sness; science – from these swirling keywords, and by skewing the symbolic apple image, we can obtain a place for everyone to exist in their own way.


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Last Updated on May 08 2013
 

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