Fallen leaves, fertile ground for Alyssa Jos's creations
Guest edited by Juliette Sebille
“nature dictates the process”
Using autumn leaves, Alyssa Jos creates artworks and decorative objects connected to living things that flourish in the world of decoration.
Their shapes, colours, and surfaces, ranging from translucent to opaque, matt, or glossy, are fascinating. Their beauty makes them a material of choice for Alyssa Jos. The botanical sculptor works with dead leaves by hand, respecting their nature. She creates artworks and decorative objects connected to living things that flourish in the world of decoration.
Image courtesy of Marion Saupin.
Alyssa Jos grew up in a penthouse overlooking the rooftops of Paris. It is in this extraordinary place, with a garden and a breathtaking view of the city, that she cultivated her creative fibre. A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs, she now shares the former ceramic painting studio that her mother had moved into before her to pursue her various activities, from jewellery designer to beekeeper. The beehives have given way to a new project steeped in urban nature.
Alyssa creates unique artworks from the autumn leaves of the capital. Driven by the desire to ennoble this organic, local, abundant and aesthetic resource, she has been exploring every specimen that falls into her hands for the past two years. To elevate them to the status of material, the leaves go through a long preparation process, the outcome of which is unpredictable. A whole season of sorting, bathing, drying and resting between the pages of a book... Alyssa preserves the original texture of the leaves. She shapes them using techniques borrowed from textiles to create all kinds of patterns. Fish scales, feathers, butterfly wings, waves, stars, and flowers: it is up to you to interpret them.
Words by Juliette Sebille
Find out more about Alyssa Jo's creations:
@alyssajos_creation
“nature dictates the process”
Using autumn leaves, Alyssa Jos creates artworks and decorative objects connected to living things that flourish in the world of decoration.
Their shapes, colours, and surfaces, ranging from translucent to opaque, matt, or glossy, are fascinating. Their beauty makes them a material of choice for Alyssa Jos. The botanical sculptor works with dead leaves by hand, respecting their nature. She creates artworks and decorative objects connected to living things that flourish in the world of decoration.
Image courtesy of Marion Saupin.
Alyssa Jos grew up in a penthouse overlooking the rooftops of Paris. It is in this extraordinary place, with a garden and a breathtaking view of the city, that she cultivated her creative fibre. A graduate of the Arts Décoratifs, she now shares the former ceramic painting studio that her mother had moved into before her to pursue her various activities, from jewellery designer to beekeeper. The beehives have given way to a new project steeped in urban nature.
Alyssa creates unique artworks from the autumn leaves of the capital. Driven by the desire to ennoble this organic, local, abundant and aesthetic resource, she has been exploring every specimen that falls into her hands for the past two years. To elevate them to the status of material, the leaves go through a long preparation process, the outcome of which is unpredictable. A whole season of sorting, bathing, drying and resting between the pages of a book... Alyssa preserves the original texture of the leaves. She shapes them using techniques borrowed from textiles to create all kinds of patterns. Fish scales, feathers, butterfly wings, waves, stars, and flowers: it is up to you to interpret them.
Words by Juliette Sebille
Find out more about Alyssa Jo's creations:
@alyssajos_creation