Tobey Sharp Studio

I eat an absurd amount of apples. And by absurd, frankly I mean fully so. Take a guess and double it. I suppose I thought that they finally deserved a monument. Something that reflected the importance in my life that apples hold. The project is silly, and brought me a lot of joy while I made them. So there is nothing curated or specific about the type of apples or stone, or tools, or method of carving. I just sat down and carved an apple core – not even a specific one, just what my memory of a core is, and how I see them in my own day to day.

I want to do more with this line of thinking; apples, stones – to me there is a bit of a connection between the two – both physically, bodily and just as they exist in my own head. Carving is an intuitive medium for me, but I hadn’t done a project utilizing the medium for almost a year now, and because of this I needed a warmup. Something to refamiliarize myself with how carving feels and what my limitations may still be. I’m slower than I expected and the detail that I am able to achieve is still lower than what I would like it to be. I want to continue in this vein of making stone apples and continue to make them more and more realistic and really capture the essence of what a core looks and feels like. Because each is a wholly unique thing and somehow special to an individual without being tailored by themself. I find that a fascinating aspect in anything and want to reflect it in an opposite way – how to express a mindless uniqueness that I see but do it in an incredibly deliberate medium.