{"id":565,"date":"2026-10-13T00:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/?page_id=565"},"modified":"2026-10-13T00:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T00:18:46","slug":"ugly-fruit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/ugly-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Misfits Market, Hungry Harvest and Imperfect Foods did not exist when I started this series of colored pencil drawings. Distressed by our culture\u2019s terrible waste of \u201cimperfectly\u201d grown foods, I began to draw unconventional vegetables and fruit, nature\u2019s oddly shaped surprises, shown in their natural glory, simply exquisite. Their character, their unusual forms, bumps and bruises, inform my ongoing series, which has included wild organic carrots that resemble ginseng, unruly squash, heirloom tomatoes of incredible colors and shapes, and humble, knobbly root vegetables such as beets, turnips, and potatoes \u2013 quite beautiful, though not by contemporary mass-market standards.<\/p>\n\n\n

\"Stone<\/a>
Stone Soup<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Dragon<\/a>
Dragon Fruit<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Carrot<\/a>
Carrot Trio<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Mystery<\/a>
Mystery Fruit (Take a Guess!)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Blue<\/a>
Blue Fingerlings<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Black<\/a>
Black Radish: The Dancer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Yellow<\/a>
Yellow Heirloom Tomato: Study in Character<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Flying<\/a>
Flying Potatoes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Potatoes:<\/a>
Potatoes: On The Fence<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>
\"Long<\/a>
Long Gourd: Envy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Misfits Market, Hungry Harvest and Imperfect Foods did not exist when I started this series of colored pencil drawings. Distressed by our culture\u2019s terrible waste of \u201cimperfectly\u201d grown foods, I began to draw unconventional vegetables and fruit, nature\u2019s oddly shaped surprises, shown…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_fran_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-565","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":566,"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565\/revisions\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artists.cleardev.com\/fran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}