Sakir Gökçebag Finds Geometric Perfection in Photographs of Fruits and Vegetables

Turkish artist <span style="font-size: small"><a title="Sakir Gökçebag" href="http://www.sakirgokcebag.com/HomePage.aspx" target="_blank">Sakir Gökçebag</a> has taken the idea of a "square meal" further than it was ever intended. His pictures of fruits and vegetables placed in geometric patterns are the results of meticulous cutting, slicing, and arranging. He manipulates natural forms into sculptural works, and captures them on film to give the viewer the impression that these organic objects have become frozen in time, never to <a title="Laus Pichler's Stunning Photos of Rotting Food Examine Excess of Wasted Food " href="http://inhabitat.com/klaus-pichlers-stunning-photos-of-rotting-food-examine-excess-of-wasted-food/" target="_blank">decay</a>.</span>

Green beans are arranged in quilt-like, geometric patterns.

Perfect geometry is not found in the natural world, which could be why his photographs of familiar, imperfect objects appear so striking.

Watermelons become a frame for a blank background.

Pomegranate seeds arranged in a perfect, if unnatural circle.

Carefully sliced and arranged, the apples look almost as though they were Photoshopped into place.

Apple peels spiral in on themselves as they lie in an exact grid.

Combined with lush colors and the negative space of the composition's background, playing with your food never reached such a level of high art.

Appearing almost as chromosomes on a microscope's plate, these beans are precisely chosen, arranged, and photographed like scientific specimens.