TAMPA, Fla. — Michael McCoy allows gravity to play an elevated role in his world, along with anything from his daily life.

This is what presently sits in front of his camera: half of a day-and-a-half-old lemon on a white stand, with a white piece of paper serving as a backdrop.

His goal as he pours black and gold paint over the fruit?

“Seeing something ordinary in an extraordinary way,” McCoy explained, as he sprinkled shattered tempered glass over the lemon.

The fine art abstract photographer is creating “a moment” in his Ybor City studio.

A moment that will never exist again.

The moment McCoy captured in studio is entitled, “The Lemon in Question.” (Courtesy: Michael McCoy)

“It’s just something that I haven’t seen before, and that’s what I like making,” said McCoy.

The Tampa artist is preparing for his upcoming show, “Observations of Creation,” as he prepares to open his new gallery, Michael McCoy Studio Art Gallery on Saturday.

There are more than 50 pieces — each an original moment — made over the last five years.

“Being able to freeze it, magnify it and see it this way, you could see the stories unfolding,” he explained, holding a piece.

The artist says what some see in this unfolding is more about their story than the art’s.

“I want people to learn the truth about themselves in these pieces,” McCoy said.

Pieces of art from everyday life.

The moment McCoy captured in studio is entitled, “The Lemon in Question.”