Leaf Curvature

My nan taught me to look closely at the things most people walk straight past. Not just to notice a leaf, but to wonder why one edge is serrated and another smooth, why colour gathers in one place and fades in another. She gave me that habit before I understood any of the science behind it. Some ways of seeing become part of us long before we have words for them.

For Leaf Curvature, I turned that same attention toward a single leaf and photographed at true-to-life scale. I used engineering software to measure the radius of each curve, then annotated it like a technical drawing. Separated from the collective, its faint white edging, flush of red and shifting contours became visible—the quiet specificity we often miss until something ordinary is given our full attention.