This photograph reminds me of two early works by the great American painter Andrew Wyeth – "The Hunter" and "Spring Freshet". The feel in this photograph is similar – a detached look at an existential season.
My Grandmother gave me her faded, treasured book of Wyeth plates for Christmas in 2001. I have spent many hundreds of hours with it. The artist's quiet, unsettling compositional style has impacted me immensely.
I made this photograph exactly two years later and half a continent away. The leaves on the ground are the same colour as the brittle, dried one I found pressed between the pages of my Grandmother's book.
Tree Branches, Autumn Leaves (B&W): Near Flagstaff, AZ, 2003
I have created two interpretations of this scene. The Colour Photograph is a match to the original slide, while the Black and White Photograph is a second interpretation in monochrome.