Petals
When the skin of a supermarket fruit or vegetable becomes dehydrated, you can identify the layer of wax, or petroleum glaze, that coats the product. The shapes created by the dehydrated fruit peals are where Graquandra took the impetus for these series of petals, made by layering layers of clay and powder dyes.
During the creation of more than 250 ceramic petals, each individually shaped, Graquandra felt melancholy. The repetitive process served as a distraction from the pain and also harmonized with agricultural overproduction and monoculture. These images capture the walk Graquandra took in Meijendel, the most contiguous dunes in the Netherlands. The petals camouflage themselves and nestle into nature.