Fruits in Favour
The emotions it evokes, the desires it reflects, and the metaphorical supremacy of a fruit are incomparable. From fertility to sin, desires, abundance, delicacy, purity, artists and writers have long been charmed by the versatility of the fruit's symbolism. Fruits favour making a strong statement without being assertive. It is quite gratifying to see this appeal and significance in modern times, beyond the classical and mythological citations, as often a commentary on social, moral and cultural status & values.
There’s so much that one can write about fruits and their delicious existence, in nourishment, and in art. In a nutshell, this little excerpt from Adam Leith Gollner’s ‘The Fruit Hunters’ is what ‘Fruits in Favour’ tries to encapsulate. “Fruit was made for storytelling. Dripping with hidden significance, they provide an ideal rhetorical device. They seem so sweet and pure, yet beneath their tempting exteriors fruit can be as deceitful – and complex – as the knowledge of good and evil.
If you have made it this far, and if fruits are your food of desire, I would love to know the relationship you share with it.
“Most fruit imagery is purely symbolic. I suppose they usually have quite a pleasing & symmetrical natural shape which works well as a focal point (plus giving life to a cover without using human figures). For the Art of a Lie, the pineapple was particularly poignant as the novel is set in the Georgian era, and centers around a confectionary shop - at this time in Britain pineapples were a big symbol of wealth and status, often used as decoration as well as food.” - EMMA PIDSLEY
“The idea behind the banana on the cover was obvious to a book about comedy & making mistakes. The most interesting part of the cover is it’s audaciousness and my favorite part being the type. It’s made to look like when you draw on a banana with a toothpick, you don’t see the image right away, but it slowly appears as a bruise on the skin over time. This felt perfectly in line with the character in the book starting to learn stand up comedy, where timing is everything.” - DAVID CURTIS
