This Delicate Artwork Is Made Using Nothing But Fallen Leaves

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If you’ve ever moved from one city to another, you know there are many challenges to face. Finding a place to live, changing your mailing address, learning the local lingo. If you’re not moving for a job, well, you’ve got to find one of those, too. Moving from one country to another is even more challenging. When Omid Asadi came to England from Iran several years ago, he wasn’t thinking about leaves. He was likely worried about the same things everyone else was. But out one day on a walk with his wife, Elham Rafiei, he started thinking about leaves. How people preferred flowers. How when the leaves fell, people simply swept them away or tread on them until they were dust. But he thought the leaves in his new town were beautiful, and worthy of celebration. Working with his wife, who is skilled in the art of Persian miniature painting, he began to develop a way to turn nature’s trash into artistic treasure.
As Omid says in his artist’s statement, “Art for me is the way of looking differently to this world and around myself. I started to think why nobody paid attention to these beautiful leaves and trod on them, because of their name - if they were called flowers we wouldn’t tread on them at all! I wanted to give the leaves another Life and make art from them.” He also frequently cites a quote of unknown origin in reference to his work: “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It's ordinary to love the beautiful but it's beautiful to love the ordinary.”

The leaves are all carved completely by hand, and most are then affixed to paper with wood glue before being mounted and framed.Omid uses both the leaf itself and the “negative” white space to create beautiful, intricate and fantastical images. Check out this surreal piece.

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