Thirteen Persimmons

A single orange-red persimmon with its dark brown calyx sits at the left edge of a wide, narrow horizontal composition, rendered in a photographic, almost collaged style against textured horizontal bands of blue. The blue background varies from deep navy to lighter cerulean stripes, with scattered flecks of white, black, and gold breaking up the texture, giving the surface a weathered, painterly quality. Daniel Kelly's *Thirteen Persimmons* (2018, mixed media) isolates the single fruit off-center within this elongated blue field, leaving the majority of the composition open and unoccupied.