Artwork

Color in as You Wish

A participatory project: visitors colour in blank paint-by-numbers apples.

Installation view of Color in as You Wish: a large red paint-by-numbers apple on the left wall and shelves of small coloured-in apple drawings on the right
Color in as You Wish, 2003. Participatory installation — paint-by-numbers panels, shelves, enlarged painting.

About this work

Participants in this project were asked to colour in the blank paint-by-numbers apple without instructions.

Fuji Apple, 2003, is an enlarged paint-by-numbers piece that has been completed by following the instructions. An object of Japanese origin that grows in the United States, it is a metaphor for myself looking for a destination.

Twenty-five small apple drawings on five shelves, each coloured in differently by a participant, one left as a black silhouette
Participant apples on the gallery shelves — every one coloured in as they wished.
Fuji Apple: an enlarged paint-by-numbers apple filled in with numbered patches of red, pink and brown on a pale blue ground
Fuji Apple, 2003 — the enlarged painting, completed by following the instructions.