The series “Hewn Fruit” (gouache on paper) was created for and featured in the poetry collection O—(ezekiel’s wife) by C.R. Grimmer.

A shape after a shape is a shape after a shape. “Hewn Fruit” is a series of spontaneous compositions that play with how a repeated flat shape can show facets, dimension, depth, and space. The repetition initially was an attempt to exorcise anxiety and fixation, a sort of stand-in for recurring thoughts that could be piled up within the bounds of a page and shift back and forth between a united object and a more diffuse mass. The shape in question is nothing in particular, a bit of roundness rising up or stacking behind, clutching like eggs or pulled down into peaks like soft mud. Or perhaps they are dark and open mouths, bearing the sounds of “O.”