Alphonse Lane: Think for a Moment - The PEAR
Artist explains
If you take a Pear and observe it, the Pear carries for us a message. That message is all about the journey the Pear has traveled in life, just as we as humans carry markings of our travels. Each Pear carries on its flesh, wounds, dents, and marks. In this fashion, the Pear is very human. We carry these wounds, dents, and markings from our travels and life experiences.
There are those of us who carry their scars on the outside of our bodies, and there are those who carry many deep and ingrained scars mentally inside of us. Even though invisible, the inner scars can drum up many powerful negative and downtrodden emotions.
It is not my task to identify illnesses that people succumb to but to call attention to the Pear and how we should identify with it.
We are more like the Pear than you think.