Cascade of leaves completed

The weather has been exceptional on the mountain - beautiful sunshine, so for Fiona and I there was a little less time for art and a little more time spent on the block doing catchup yard work including some serious heavy pruning of trees. This tends to be a pretty big job given the number of fruiting trees on our block

Still I did want to complete the 5 cascades of leaves that would make up the Cascade of Leaves installation for Goondiwindi art show-exhibition. I had to cut, fold, form and beat about another 30 leaves from the recycled anodised aluminium lids etc to give me enough variety of colours and shapes. But the piece is done as you can see from the series of photos below.

Barry Smith © Cascade of leaves - 5 cascades - looking up from floor

Barry Smith © Cascade of leaves - single cascade - looking up

Barry Smith © Cascade of leaves - several cascades - looking up

Barry Smith © Cascade of leaves - 5 cascades - looking through

Barry Smith © Cascade of leaves - 5 cascades - looking through

And I made a brief, but pretty boring, video to just give those interested an idea of what it looks like with a bit of movement; and from a couple of angles. The full installation looks best if you can walk around it - photographing it front on tends to give the impression that it is cluttered and not a light float of leaves.

Mini video of Cascade of leaves (56seconds)

As you can see from the photos it is hanging from the ceiling of my 'clean studio' with an old sheet as the back drop. The ceiling and wall has suffered for my art - screw-hangers and tack holes. The floor shot gave me the opportunity to check the layout of the hangers.