(Polymer clay, acrylic paint)
From Charlie Chaplin to the Three Stooges to Woody Allen, the banana has been at the center of one joke after another, propelling comedians into head-over-heels antics. Slumped on the gallery floor, this to-scale replica of a banana peel is animated by the tension of an impending drop, an implied narrative or an imagined prat-fall, with a nod to Newton. Caution Yellow requires that the viewer negotiate it both as an art object and as a safety hazard.
In the collection of Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto, permanently installed on campus.