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 butterflies, sea, sky, egg, and brain. Butterfly’s wings, brain, sea, stone, sky, and egg are symbols of beauty, strength, thought, vastness... There are feathers and seashells in this picture as symbols of sky and sea, respectively. The blue peafowl feather is a symbol of blue sky. On the coast, the crabs are heading towards the sky and some of them perished halfway…Each of these elements is a symbol of nothingness and all values important to us that vanish by death.