Derek Liddington
Created in a similar fashion as Two Views of Bananas..., only now grappling with “representing” a pineapple by draping its form with a piece of canvas, Liddington once again gives shape to the image of his “subject” by tracing its literal form—a process of abstraction. Yet, Liddington considers his “subject” (which of course is the object: a pineapple) to have agency in the encounter; it is the thing itself that gives Liddington his visual cues in this performative representation. The work’s title also makes us wonder: on a table, are objects lying? “And bananas. Cardboard coloured as bananas are coloured. And Cabbages. Cabbages are green and if one should not happen to be there what would happen, the green would unhappily unhappily result in hardness and we could only regret that the result was unfortunate…” (Objects, 105)
