Autumn Leaves is a branch turned elegy: moss‑cloaked wood, delicate leaves shifting through color, a living sculpture of seasonal change. It evokes the fleeting beauty of nature’s cycle; vibrant, fragile, already fading. Inspired by the song made famous by Nat King Cole, it carries the same ache of memory and loss. The leaves fall like notes, each one a reminder of love gone, of time slipping.
The piece is both beautiful and mournful, a meditation on regret and the inevitability of change. It is about what fades, what cannot be held, and the painful passage of time. Yet in its fragility lies its power: the reminder that impermanence is the essence of beauty.
Autumn Leaves
Portland, Oregon
2026
Clay, glaze, mason stain, wire, cork
18 × 13 × 7 inches, 45.7 × 33 × 17.8 cm

