This was a multi-layer woodcarving relief print. It was based on a Plane Tree leaf that I picked up off the ground in Autumn in Elwood in the year 2005. The panel on the left is drawn from the centre of the leaf, and the panel on the right is from the edge of the same leaf. The central panel is just woodgrain. This is about looking at how the structure of leaves recurs continually, growing out of the trunks and branches. It is about the life force of the tree which moves through the lines in the grain, and forms these shapes in the leaves:
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Deciduous trees are so inexorably connected with the solar yearly cycle:
SPRING:
SUMMER:
AUTUMN:
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