Fallen Fruit is the Los Angeles - based collaborative team of David Burns and Austin Young, whose various projects use fruit as a filter to
examine distinct places and histories, issues of representation and ownership, and address questions of public versus private space.
«Our research
examines how moral values of empathy and justice have
distinct influences on people when they are asked to make donations benefiting others whose choices have led them to an unfortunate
place in life,» write authors Saerom Lee (University of Texas at San Antonio), Karen Page Winterich (Pennsylvania State University), and William T. Ross Jr. (University of Connecticut).