Description

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. Butterfly’s wings, bone, brain, sea, stone, sky, and egg are symbols of beauty, strength, thought, vastness, pride and difficulty, infinite area, and human embryo, respectively. Each of these elements is values important to us that vanish by death. Bone is a symbol of strength which is the only thing left for a long time after death. I used some dried flowers alongside the bone to soften the bitterness of the photo.