Infinity Apple

This performance explores the meditative act of cutting an apple. The artist attempts to peel the skin off an apple in one continuous piece, paying homage to their Japanese mother’s gestures of love through precise fruit cutting.

Wrestling with the challenge of emulating their mother’s dexterity as a second-generation mixed Japanese American, the artist contemplates the significance of this cyclical act, affirming acts of love beyond Western expectations of physical affection.

The action of cutting the apple further serves as a gesture that contemplates life’s beginning, middle, and end—a reflection on the passage of time and the inevitability of loss. As the blade slices through the apple’s skin, participants are invited to consider the fragility and transience of existence, preparing themselves for the eventual departure of a loved one or mourning a loss already endured.