Human/ Banana Ripeness Chart

From thesneeze, a chart about aging.  This chart was posted on 3 October 2004.  Michael Fernandes did something very similar at a Nova Scotia gallery four years later, as I noted previously.   The posting on thesneeze includes lots of explanatory comments under the pictures, some of them funny, while Fernandes did not include explanatory text with his installation.  Also, Fernandes reversed the usual chronology of maturation and decay by setting out fresher bananas each day.    

Childhood

Childhood

Teenage years

Teenage years

20s

20s

30s-40s

30s-40s

50s-60s

50s-60s

Old Age

Old Age

Death

Death

3 Comments

  1. cymast

     /  November 19, 2008

    Bananas aren’t any good until they’re at least half brown.

  2. acilius

     /  November 19, 2008

    I like them as soon as they get the first speckles, what’s labeled here as “30s-40s.” I don’t object to them until well into “Old Age.”

  3. cymast

     /  November 19, 2008

    Sunblock.

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