Cercis siliquastrum (commonly known as European Cercis) - the Judas tree is the specie that grew these leaves.

This Judas Leaf is an entirely unique casting of nature made by Ashleaf, the small London-based art practice Hanna co-founded and was actively and collaboratively working in at the time these sculptures were created in between 2015 and 2020. The leaf was cast in solid bronze in 2016 at the Crucible Foundry in London by late Damon Rawnsley using the traditional lost wax bronze casting technique.

The leaf has preserved the delicate details of the leaf texture while the other side reveals brush marks that bear witness to the how they were captured as a sculpture in this material. It is finished with a makers mark stamped in the wax on the reverse. please note, this leaf is sold as seen. It may have imperfections in the condition as the leaf was found. Please check photos for more details.

This listing is for one single bronze leaf sculpture only. Group photos are only for illustration purposes.

Each leaf is utterly unique and so are our bronze castings of them, preserving three essential qualities of leaves: their texture, contour and shape. The original leaf disappears in the process and is preserved in bronze. These small bronze sculptures allow a different appreciation of leaves, a new dimension of tactility appears that complements the already existing qualities.

When leaves emerge in bronze after casting, like a phoenix reborn from its ashes, what was fragile in leaf becomes robust in bronze. The form lives on in a different substance - a transformation from transience to permanence.