The Size of a Grapefruit displays a collection by artist Danielle Krysa that takes the audience on a journey of growth through witnessing the beautiful flourish from the ugly. The title is derived from Krysa’s interest of pain measurement, as doctors often use fruit sizes to describe the tumors. Krysa found that one in three women will be told her pain is caused by “a large orange, a small melon, several cherries, a few plums, a medium sized grapefruit, etc”.

In The Size of a Grapefruit, the viewer finds an altar space, behind a curtain, where they can intimately connect with a shrine of “specimen jar” sculptures which reimagine pain and loss as sparkly damaged jewelry, crystals, “sugar coated” fruit and flora, shattered ceramic, and hundreds of lipstick-stained clay cigarettes. Krysa’s mixed media collages hang on the gallery walls, the clay butts replaced with paper cigarettes, but the message is still the same: difficulties, grief, and pain will try to hold us down, but if that trash is used as fertilizer, we can blossom into something even more beautiful.