Living in Detroit’s Eastern Market for 10 years meant I had access to locally grown tart cherries that I would buy at least 8 quarts worth every year to hand pit and freeze for making Michigan cherry pies year-round. I would wash and dry out all of the cherry pits and store them in jars as decoration. When the opportunity from Alice came to make a piece of the CHERRIES! show I knew I wanted to make something from the least desirable/edible part of the fruit, the pits.

The piece was originally displayed on a modified trash can with a broken lid that I replaced with a customized piece of white melamine to serve as the pedestal. Making a pedestal that avoided the anonymized white Platonic ideal was important to me as a nod to the legacy of modernist sculpture, starting with Constantin Brancusi, to incorporate the pedestal and display mechanisms into the works themselves. The pedestal is an opportunity to further imbue works with meaning and to challenge the conventions of exhibitions.

— Andy T