Colin Pearce l Photographer
Colin Pearce in conversation
Adam & Eve (2011)
"The Adam and Eve project was conceived at a time of change, when the season was moving into Autumn. My work has always dealt with the passing of time and I was interested in producing work that expressed temptation and sexual natural. The idea of using the artichokes to represent the principle characters came about because I saw their hearts as a beautiful and symbolic ideal of forbidden fruit, freshly picked from the Garden of Eden. Temptation turns the fruits to the colour of Autumn. I was fascinated to discover that hidden beneath their spikey outer case lies the essence of feminine beauty.The hearts are placed in such a fashion, so to show the foreplay to sexual intercourse. The masculine male heart is hard and errect while the feminine heart is shaped like a woman's pubic area and Eve herself. I wanted the work to portray male and female equally as strong on the outside and as tender at their very heart".
Colin Pearce l 2012
