Izzy Losskarn is an emerging pastel artist and researcher based in Athens, Georgia. Her practice, which is rooted heavily in the regular study of gender-based research, pulls together familiar and absurd imagery from personal and anonymous experiences related to the topic of gender in an effort to address a specific issueó the circumstances and consequences of the overwhelming presence of gendered stereotypes, ideas and imagery in our daily life. "Ripe and Reduced" is a pastel drawing which offers audiences two over-sized and improperly labeled bananas as a confrontation of the outdated ideas that often surround political intersections on age, gender, and value. On the left, an underripe banana, incorrectly labeled as ready-to-eat, waits for its inevitable consumption. On the right, an overripe banana lingers, reduced in value, likely to remain untouched for a while longer. But both are still bananas, separated only by incorrect labels, by appearance, and by arbitrary value.