This work is titled Leaf Shadow and it was completed in the fall 2002. I have spent much of my life observing the natural world and with this piece I observed the movement of a variety of trees’ shadows over a period of three weeks. Then, I decided to fill in the shadow with autumn leaves and watch what would happen. I worked on this project in the middle of the day around dozens of people who were walking all around my college campus. People asked me a variety questions and it was exciting and challenging to engage in conversation. I talked about the ephemeral quality of nature and how when we look at a tree we think it is still and fixed, but if we could perceive nature over a long enough time it could expand our understanding of the world around us and how everything and every being has its place. I feel as though most people intuitively understood this when they experienced it as their comments focused on the temporal quality of the work. The fact that these leaves will be completely blown away in a matter of hours, promotes further questioning of time, nature, change, destruction, and creation. These issues are important because they are the core ideas of this project.