This monumental strawberry is the creation of painter, Aaron Fink. The world according to Fink is one in which things are not what they appear. At first glance one sees a lushly painted embodiment of sensuahty and Eros. But upon closer inspection, we reahze that it is embedded within a canvas which has been blotted, scraped, and otherwise manipulated. Initial sweetness masks an undercurrent of fundamental creative and sometimes violent forces. The explosive energy with which Fink literally attaehs the canvas informs us that destruction is inherent in creation. For Fink, art is the progeny of a dynamic system in which change and metamorphosis are revealed through acts of deconstruction.