Botanical & Flowers · horizontal

Leaf Totem - Mirrored Green Foliage on Black

Bright green leaves and slender reddish-brown branches are mirrored left to right, and also top to bottom, to build a symmetrical pattern. The foliage glows against a dark, blurred background, and the central clusters of leaves look a little like a face or an insect. Thin twigs curve across the dark space between the leaf groups.

A buyer wants this piece because it makes ordinary leaves look ornate. Mirror symmetry turns green foliage into a glowing, totem-like figure against near-black, and people read it as a mask, a face or an insect. It is a bold botanical for someone who wants green on the wall but not another soft, pale leaf print. The saturated greens on deep shadow are the main reason to choose it over ten other plant pictures.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski