COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Image Record ID:
aahi0005745
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Work Title (display):
Leaf Leap (All the World's Leaves)
Image Title:
detail view
Work Description:
Abeles' Leaf Leap (All the World's Leaves), was exhibited at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. It creates a physical space where children are allowed to jump into a mass of oversized, fabric leaves. Each of the leaves is labeled in embroidery with the name of the tree and its location of origin; collectively they represent all the species of trees found globally. Each leaf is scaled to be 5 times larger than it's actual size, and each has the shape, veins, texture and color of the actual leaf. Straddling reason and imagination, education and installation art, the work includes an interactive wall-scale video projection of all types of trees blowing in the wind, a hushed audio howl is triggered by the children's jumping. The backdrop is a fictitious ocean that is formed of foam covered with several shades of blue fabric. Of this work Abeles writes: "Leaves in the wind like seeds propagating through the moving air from one place to another, past one language, then another, then dry and wet lands, crossing plastic map place mats on kitchen tables. . .over the solid and slashed boundary lines of geography. The leaves, like so many stuffed animals in a child's room, speak of our peculiar, contemporary relationship with nature, at once estranged and as comforting as a doze under a tree in our memories." (http://www.artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2001/Articles0201/JOBrien0201.html)
Work Dates (display):
2000
Work Dates type:
creation
Work Creator (display):
Kim Abeles (American, born 1952)
Work Creator gender:
female
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female
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false
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program, 2001
Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
Work Style Period
false
Work Style Period:
20th century
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20th century
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false
Work Subject:
trees
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trees
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false
Work Subject:
children (people by age group)
subject
children (people by age group)
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
environmentalism
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environmentalism
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false
Work Worktype:
sculpture (visual works)
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sculpture (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
fiber art
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fiber art
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Work Category (VRC classification):
sculptures and installations
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sculptures and installations
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
450 embroidered fabric leaves/video projection/lavender
Work Measurements (display):
20 ft x 40 ft
Image Source Reproduction refid:
055421
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UCBAAHVRCSlideAccessionNumber
Image Rights (display):
© Kim Abeles
Work Rights (display):
© Kim Abeles
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Holding Institution:
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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