Cottonwood Leaves
Cottonwood Leaves
- Creator: Matt Grover
- Date: 2016
- Location: I-84 & Broadway Ave
- Types: sculpture (visual work)
- Materials: stainless steel
- Collection: Site-Based Works
One of the most common sights along the Boise River is the Cottonwood leaf. Overhead, underfoot, along the Greenbelt, and throughout our parks, these leaves are ever-present in all of their forms, from newly green to the end state of decay. Within this commonness they have become a part of Boise’s identity. These sculptures depict the leaf as we see it throughout two different parts of the year. The left side of the 11.5 foot-tall leaf shows the leaf as we see it in Spring and Summer with the veins of the leaf cut along its solid surface, and the right side shows it as we see the leaf after it has fallen in the Autumn and Winter, when only the silhouette of its veins remain to show the shape of the leaf. Installed side by side, the two pieces of this design combine to become the instantly recognizable Cottonwood leaf that is a part of our daily lives in Boise.
