Leaves & Leafs
Collage for a mixtape
Leaves & Leafs
2020
A hodgepodge culled from such sources as Harper’s monthly, The Adventures of Tintin, a Met Museum engagement notebook, and a private collection of Polaroids formatted to meet the dimensions of a traditional j-card for an accompanying mixtape.
Cut-and-pasted photos and soft-gloss paper on card stock and cardboard
12” × 12”
'Wouldn't It Be Nice' The Beach Boys
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'Octopus's Garden' The Beatles
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'Here Comes My Baby' Cat Stevens
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'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' Neutral Milk Hotel
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'Strawberry Fields Forever' The Beatles
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'Place to Be' Nick Drake
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'Sweet Thing' Van Morrison
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'Wouldn't It Be Nice' The Beach Boys 🄰 'Octopus's Garden' The Beatles 🄰 'Here Comes My Baby' Cat Stevens 🄰 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea' Neutral Milk Hotel 🄰 'Strawberry Fields Forever' The Beatles 🄰 'Place to Be' Nick Drake 🄰 'Sweet Thing' Van Morrison 🄰
Excerpt from ‘Leaves & Leafs’ mixtape
An anniversary gift mixtape interspersed with fragments of a conversation recorded while the tracks were played live by a secluded brook.
Side A: 30’28”
Side B: 30’57”
'If Not for You' George Harrison
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'The Village Green Preservation Society' The Kinks
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'A Sunny Day' Donovan
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'Stephanie Says' The Velvet Underground
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'Seeing Other People' Belle & Sebastian
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'上を向いて歩こう' Kyu Sakamoto
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'Hey Jude' The Beatles
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'If Not for You' George Harrison 🄱 'The Village Green Preservation Society' The Kinks 🄱 'A Sunny Day' Donovan 🄱 'Stephanie Says' The Velvet Underground 🄱 'Seeing Other People' Belle & Sebastian 🄱 '上を向いて歩こう' Kyu Sakamoto 🄱 'Hey Jude' The Beatles 🄱
Birds (Pinterest), airplane ('Flight 714 to Sidney', Hergé), train (Harper's), Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden gazebo (Polaroid), clouds ('My Neighbor Totoro' Blu-Ray case insert), moon and constellation (Cavallini & Co. notebook), lighthouse ('Lighthouse and Buildings, Portland Head', Hopper; MFA Boston postcard), foliage (The New Yorker)
Bluejay (Cavallini & Co. notebook), tree and blossoms ('Cherry and Maple Trees', Hōitsu; The Met calendar), teapot ('Still Life with Teapot and Fruit', Gauguin; a different Met calendar), foliage (The New Yorker)
Cut-out digital download code ('Sauna' vinyl, Mount Eerie), 45 player ('Moonrise Kingdom', Anderson; 'The Wes Anderson Collection', Seitz), watering can (Harney & Son's tea sachet packet), tent and suitcases (1950s advertisement)