Caption: #FaceTheFoliage I was raking dead leaves in my yard one morning when all of the sudden, after staring at the leaves for several minutes they began to look like lips. So I grabbed a few of them off the floor and arranged them on my patio table until I had created an entire face from leaves. The face looked very expressive. She looked a bit melancholy, but if I titled her eyebrows one way, or switched the leaf I was using for lips, the expression completely changed. This got me playing around with the leaves and next thing you know I was picking little flowers and grabbing small twigs to make the faces. The more I create them, the more elaborate they become. When I take walks in my neighborhood I collect little berries and flowers and bring them home for my faces. I do not glue them together, I simply arrange the pieces on my table until they 'speak' to me. When they do, I take a few photos and then put the leaves back into a bowl for the next moment of inspiration. It may be the temporary nature of the collages that I like most. A dead leaf floating down from a tree becomes an eye brow, or a nose. A petal of bright bougainvillea becomes painted, puckered lips. A shamrock becomes a bow-tie, and then it goes back into the bowl. It's a very fun exercise, it calms me and is fun to do with kids as well. After sharing the photos on Instagram and using the hashtag #facethefoliage people from all over the world have joined in and begun to share in the fun making zero-waste foliage portraits. Won't you join us?