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I was drawn to painting a bunch of bananas for their bright yellow colours and interesting shape. Bananas taste great mashed on fresh bread and butter, or on warm banana cake topped with melted butter. Bananas are a great food to include in your lunch as they come with their own easy-to-peel packaging.
According to Whitman and Mayhew (2012, p 86), bananas originated from South-East Asia and were grown in the tropics. However, before humans cultivated bananas, the fruits contained so many bitter black seeds that they were almost inedible. Archaeological evidence in places like the Torres Strait and Sri Lanka shows that early Indigenous communities relied on wild bananas for their leaves, for shelter and cooking, for fibres for rope and for the plants’ starchy core, rather than just the fruit (www.sapiens.org). Bananas were religious symbols which appeared in Buddhist scriptures from 600BC. In South and Southeast Asian traditions, the banana plant represents selflessness and impermanence because every single part of the plant is used before it rapidly decays (www.abgc.org.au).
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