This piece was inspired by Charleston's symbolic iconography, the most famous symbol being the pineapple. I have been visiting Charleston since I was little, and every time I have been, I loved looking at all of the pineapple sculptures, paintings, and images. At the time I was 15 and just bought my first Prismacolor colored pencils. I saw other artists creating hyper realistic images of food and other objects. I was intrigued to try to make something realistic myself, so I choose none other than what I looked forward to seeing when I went to Charleston. When I realized every spike on the pineapple was taking hours at a time, I gradually fell back and stopped working on it. It was not until I decided to enter it into the Celebrating Arts competition to finish what I had started two years ago.