On a wonderfully leisurely walk through the woods this spring, something I really enjoy doing, I noticed the remnants of last year's leaves, carelessly strewn on the mossy ground.
Of course I knew that the skeleton of a leaf contains endless beauty, but this time I was more attentive to it.
I tried to make this past glory shine again by making a digital line drawing of it. The gossamer branches of the veins that emerge precisely in this state stripped of mesophyll shows the fragility of the leaf. Yet this leaf also made an important contribution to the survival of the earth last year through the production of oxygen.
More attention and respect for these important beautiful gifts of nature might make our living environment much more pleasant. In any case, awareness is a path to healing the earth!
How nice it is to revisit this leaf in this way by including this display as a work of art in the interior.
Has it ever been different?
I was always drawing ー as early as primary school, the margin of my notebooks was full of scribbles that didn't have much to do with what was supposed to be there. A lot of nature, especially flora.
The older I got, ..
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