Chen Sun – Lemon Drawing

 

 

‘An tangerine that is too yellow and has a weird growth on the end of it’, this is my first impression of a lemon. You might grow up with the presence of the lemon from the day that you started to remember. Though, they are as strange to me as a spaceship from outer space for my first encounter with it. I couldn’t really remember when I first saw a lemon, but they are fascinating fruits to me at the time, part of which is because that I don’t know what to do with them. Do you eat them like a tangerine, peel them, and enjoy the moon shape pebbles inside? I’ve tried and it didn’t work! The skins are hard and thick. No way I could penetrate them with my finger. And what’s with the smell, so sour! Cut it open and the juicy spread the sourness across the entire room. Terrible things, who would eat fruit that are this sour, the tangerines are so much better! Fast forward to the present, how ironic that now I couldn’t live my life without them. Sautés, cake, tea, water even, they are fantastic giving just the right amount of acidity with that lovely refreshing smell, leaving me wondering why I don’t mind the ‘terrible’ sourness anymore. How things could change and how time flies. A lemon doesn’t change, but certainly for me, it somehow marked part of who I am today.

Lemon Paragraph

Kimin Kang

Lemon Paragraph

Lemon has very fresh color compared to the similar fruit Orange.  Lemon has very bright yellow, which is very light color and it gives me feeling of transparency. In fact, the color is opaque due to the thick and tough peel.  The peel is very smooth and glossy.  It has bumpy texture, which seems very similar to detail of human skin.  When it is cut in half, I can see pieces of lemon cut in half, which are beautifully arranged around the center. The plan of cut lemon reminds me of yellow sweet potato pizza.  Section of wedge shape Lemon piece has triangle shapes. 8 to10 Lemon pieces usually compose the Lemon. If I peel the lemon and split them without cutting, the piece comes in either wedge shape or half moon shape. When I look at the lemon in detail, the particle contains lemon juice with very thin membrane. This membrane is very fragile that it is easily popped. These thousands of particles fill up the wedge shape or half moon shape lemon piece.  Membrane of wedge shape lemon piece has very durable texture compare to membrane of the particle. These wedge shapes of lemon pieces are arranged to fill up the oval shape of lemon. The taste of lemon and the smell of lemon are sour and citrus. Personally, I really like the smell of it. Also I really like to consume lemon to take away the after taste of meals. I know one person who was very similar to lemon. Her personality usually freshens my minds; also her skin color was like lemon’s color. I thought she was transparent which mean I thought I could guess her personality by talking to her for short time. But it was opaque; she wanted to hide her beautiful mind with sassy and opaque personality, just like Lemon’s thick peel with light but opaque color. Moreover, she has habit of starring at lemon for hours and hours sometimes. Maybe she is human version of lemon. Falling in love with her made my eyes very watery, just like tasting lemon makes my mouth very watery.

Oh I love Lemon!

Lemon drawings

Acrylic paint

Dried lemon has little bit of orange color

Lemon piece and its membrane

Lemon cut in half

lemon drawing – Yitan Sun

LEMON ZESTED

Lemons!

Lemon

Lemon Drawing

LEMON!

A bag full of lemons.  Brightly colored with yellow and speckled with pores.  Are they pores?!   I don’t know.  Lemon pressed to the grater, I deprive the lemon of its rind.  A spritz of lemon citrus and zest in the air.  Into a bowl fall the shriveling strands of marigold colored lemon rind.

The lemon is no longer its brightly colored yellow; the lemon is a pale yellow.

I slice one lemon open exposing its capsules of juices.  The lemon is yellow again.  An individual slice I take, and into the same bowl squeeze the slice to drain it of its juices.  Left are nearly two rind-less, pale yellow lemons.

Near a dozen eggs; plenty of sugar; plenty of butter; a bit of flour; a bit of baking powder; a pinch of salt; vanilla. Mixed and pour, then placed into an oven.  Ten minutes

Viola!  Madeleines

Still, nearly two lemons still full of citrus and zest.

lemon

A lemon

 

A piece of sunshine,

 

Two buttons at the ends,

 

Texturing bumpy,

 

Smelling fresh and tempting.

 

When someone tries to cut it to pieces,

 

She will sob with sour tears.

 

 

Bright, juicy lemon!

 

God makes her up with a white dress around,

 

Chambers of flesh is well organized by thin transparent cloth,

 

She is singing out with color and silence.

 

 

Even human squeeze her or cut her into smaller pieces,

 

She stays strong and never complains,

 

Because she knows that she could bring joy to the others.