A Series of Photographs Loosely Based on Anthony Burgess’s novel A Clockwork Orange

What does coercion look like in its most basic form? A soft and vibrant body meeting a force that exists only to reshape it.

Inspired by Anthony Burgess's metaphor of a "clockwork orange" describing an organism stripped of choice by an external force, this series pairs oranges with hand tools that cut, clamp, drill, and pry them apart. The tools don't act with malice; they simply do what they were made to do. As the tools take hold, color bleeds from the surroundings causing the world to narrow and dull. Each image moves the orange further from what it was, until the juice and sweetness are gone and only the reworked body remains.