Coconuts

Published on the occasion of Hayden's exhibition 'Coconuts' at Real Fine Arts in winter 2010.

Compiling a series of photographs taken on a Carribean vacation, this publication casually explores the wealth of cultural associations fostered by the very trees that bear such peculiar nuts. Using these images as its locus, an immersive 'beach-themed' installation is to be constructed, bringing some of the sandy surf and turf indoors just in time for winter.

The photographs in Coconuts assemble into a laconic typology of this oft-exoticised flora. Hayden's hair-in-the-breeze photographic approach easily posits this tropical form's subjection to the rigorously familiarized cultural abstractions of Corona's chillwave advertisements.