Birth
Photography by Elnaz Taassob (Iran)

Egg is similar to a human embryo, and there is no birth when it is broken. I considered a vacant bird nest with the pieces of a cracked eggshell, as well as feather all over on the leaves wishing to fly again.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.

This set is indeed a pattern of natural objects with many details! The subject of each set is attributed to the photo's texture. Further, I embedded some needles in leaves to exemplify determinism, e.g., birth and death that are not our choices but rather given to us. By the way, the needles are the only non-biodegradable elements in the photos

It is worth noting that this set includes some taxidermied insects and animals that I borrowed from my friends, and I genuinely love the environment. In what follows, I explain the six photos included in Dead Leaves set.

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