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# A fruit that doesn't need paint to look ripe
- URL: https://www.readingrome.com/a-fruit-that-doesnt-need-paint-to-look-ripe/
- Published: 2026-09-26T14:47:59.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-26T14:47:58.000Z
- Author: Maria Chugrova

Two ceramic pomegranates, split open in matte terracotta — no glaze, no color, just the shape and the texture of the seeds carved into clay. An apothecary four centuries old selling objects that argue fruit was always this sculptural, we just stopped looking.

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