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The very first idea of this project crossed my mind when I was at my mother’s grave, being preoccupied with her death and feeling of missing her. There is a magnificent and stunning bitter orange tree at her grave, and I feel its leaves root in my mother’s spirit. I literally have multiple feelings about this tree, such as love, fear, and ambiguity! I named this set “Dead Leaves” to depict beauty and death at the same time. This set includes different symbols that refer to specific subjects (human traits, I mean) such as butterfly, sea, sky, egg, and brain. Each of these elements is a symbol of nothingness and all values important to us that vanish by death. From my point of view, a narrow-minded mentality is like people with useless lives. I had a different experience in this photo, showing the narrow-minded mentality with the worms entering the brain. Furthermore, I used some stones next to brains to show that some brains are just heavy but empty in terms of thought and mindset.