bronze with patina
32 parts, overall dimensions vary
roughly 8" by 12" by 10" each

 

We all remember fall. The leaves changing colours, they way they float to the ground. Walking through fallen leaves. Those leaves that once collected sunlight now decompose, and return their organic matter and nutrients back into the earth from where the tree sprouted. Overtime those nutrients find their way into the tree to help spring buds flourish. Could our romantic notion of fall, of interdependence, and of the potential for balance pertain to the minerals we extract from the ground. Could the paradigm of fall help us question our dependant relationship with Nature?

Like a leaf the shovel decays,

But slowly,

And turns to dust.

Could we map this point of inversion:

From the Earth to our hands,

And from our hands to the Earth.