Responding to nature:

This trio of leaves was stabled together, spread out like playing cards from biggest to smallest. I wanted a pattern to emerge from the corners of each leave being stabled in a repetitive way. I used the marked leaves to give them another use, I thought that going of these marks I could try adding something more mechanical and using stables seemed quick and contrasted with the green. The combination of these materials lead to these interesting little details that developed.

Here I only used two leaves that where stapled together while being further in the decay stages. I placed them more centred over each other and stabled over the natural folds that happened from decay. This created areas where the stables weren’t going through each leave fully meaning I had to use more and it created groupings in certain areas. This process included the organic behaviour of a dying plant and the use of a metallic material that is used for holding stuff together, working to convey the state of man-made and its use to prop up nature even through the process of harming it.

I took one leave that was starting to crumble into itself and folded it, trying to keep some of the new folds while still straightening it enough to not rip out the stables. I packed this one leave with as many stables as I could make an all together new form that is more dominated by the fragile metal of a stable then its organic counterpart.