the world is getting old

like autumn leaves after rain, slowly fading, quietly resisting 

(art by Jenine Shereos / photo by Robert Diamante)

from the artist’s website:

“the intricacies of a leaf’s veining are recreated by wrapping, stitching, and knotting together strands of human hair” (…)

“the delicate trace of a hair falling silently, imperceptibly, from one’s head becoming the veins of a leaf as it falls from a tree leaving its indelible imprint on the ground below”