Cherries take on many forms. Pigments ranging from green to red to black. Cherries are voluptuous and juicy yet can dry out. Cherries grow in clusters, always surrounded by other cherries. Cherries remind me of women.

Cherry Gaze is a series of characters that embodies fruitful women, unknowing of a disquieting gaze. In comparison to my own experience of womanhood, I aim to humanize a fruit that is usually objectified, to reclaim its existence. Showing the mundane and the magical. I grew up with the pop culture meaning of a cherry that often symbolized sex, lust, and beauty. I relate to the bare ripe fruit when I become the subject of desire. There has always been something liberating about power in numbers. Being around a group of cherries makes me feel mortal.