LOVE APPLES is an experiment in public space in the city of Los Angeles, imagining new ways in which such spaces could be utilized to make our communities more livable and engaged. It promotes community awareness, sharing, food safety, public resources, and organic gardening. LOVE APPLES is a collaboration between the art collective Fallen Fruit and Islands of LA. The artists of Fallen Fruit investigate urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community all through the lens of fruit. Islands of LA is an art project that is turning traffic islands into territories of art to create community, foster discussion and explore the use and availability of public space.
• Why Love Apples? Love Apple is the 16th century English name for tomatoes, from the French pomme d’amour, possibly a mistranslation of the Italian pomo dei mori, apple of the Moors. The Italians first got tomatoes from the Spanish Moors. For this reason, other Europeans were advised at first against eating tomatoes, since they were believed to be aphrodisiacs.
Fallen Fruit is a collaborative project by David Burns, Matias Viegener & Austin Young
