Artwork Description:
I was walking home from downtown Asheville in the early afternoon of the first day of December 2004. I stepped outside of Gallery Minerva , took a left down the sidewalk and saw in the rainfilled gutter these leaves, some submerged and some reflected, and the sky, reflected, and I leaned over and took this photograph.
Art is life seen through man's craving for perfection and beauty - his escape from the sordid realities of life into a world of his imagination. [ PAUL OUTERBRIDGE ]