Maciek Jasik, “Secret Lives”

Maciek Jaskik is a photographer and pyrotechnician from Gdansk, Poland and living and working in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from John Hopkins University in 2000 and has since been in many photographic exhibitions. He “seeks to understand society’s relationship with the natural world and explore ideas of identity, gender and the self while working in a parallel world of endless color and bewildering physical phenomena.”

“The modern world has separated us from the origins and uses of fruits and vegetables; we know them only for the flavors and textures they provide. Until only very recently, each held its own mystique, mythology, symbolism and connection to the culture and afterlife.

This series aims to reintroduce these mystical, invisible qualities to fruits and vegetables that have been lost amidst the clamor of nutritional statistics. Each offers its own indelible powers beyond our narrow habits of thought.”