GRAPEFRUITS

Barren Landscape

Preserved Grapefruit Membranes, May 2022

The grapefruit membranes, originally meant to protect and grow, now stripped of their fruit, and left barren reminds me of the cycles within my own body and the bodies of those around me who have a womb. Those who have chosen to have children and watch their bodies grow and then deflate, those whose bodies can’t do what they were supposed to do, those who have made a choice to deny what their bodies could do, and those who have suffered the searing pain of child-loss.

Photos taken by Abby Johnston.