PERSONA: AUTUMN LEAVES BY CHRISTOPHER T COKER

God is good, Allah is great !

Yes people the fact remains that everything has a process of existence on this physical plane. Something as simple as a leaf comes from an extended part of life such as a tree connected to the Earth. We kind of operate in an reflect the same sense of development as a leaf. Were born (it springs), we grow (it grows), we mature (it matures), then decline and death. From time to time I just take a walk in the park to study my surroundings and clear my mind. By just studying a simple leaf it is amazing how one can manifest such a spectacular offering. I questioned the simple mechanics behind nature and how it shows itself displaying different forms of expression that many of us tend to take a blind eye to. I guess appreciation for the simple things that are around you only take place when one begins to slow down and move at an individual pace. It would only take linear thinking to be able to start demonstrating what you see and portraying it in a way where it it personalised. Sometimes the impossible is possible. How ? Well through trying out different processes of reflecting character artistically and in a ways that are secular to the norm.

What do I mean by that. I can paint, draw, have great computer skills with design software but the only thing that beats all of the above is my ability to carve it out. Not only in a way that seizes the moment but also to capture a classical but yet maturing of what I deem to be a God given talent. Yes, I will continue to capture the winter, spring and summer in ways that will be more challenging. A lot of my BIG pieces I don't show for
various reasons, but I am inclined

to make those pieces very BIG and sell them high lol... !

The iconographic stance of the leaf is powerful I believe and I really wanted to make it my own in this piece by showing great detail of the pattern. Within the actual piece and below symbolising the life and death of existence within nature. Hence why the big leaf with the pattern stands and the dead leafs below with the swirls around them.