
“Fallen Fruit of Atlanta”
Southerners—like most who live outside the centers of taste-making power—can be sensitive to the way they are portrayed. Artists David Burns and Austin Young are aware of this self-consciousness and are intrepid in addressing it in their latest exhibition, “Fallen Fruit of Atlanta,” which comprises an eclectic array of 274 found objects that the duo, known by the name Fallen Fruit, has collected. Organized into eleven salon-style groupings, or “portals,” the objects reflect stages in the development of human consciousness—from birth to self-awareness to death and the afterlife—and were procured