While other kids played football, Omid Asadi would draw — with a needle, on the back of rose petals and leaves. People 'looked' at fallen leaves, Asadi 'saw' them. "For thousands of years apples fell from the trees and everybody 'looked at them', only Isaac Newton 'saw' them, because of which our life has changed forever," says thirty-five-year-old Asadi.
Asadi's intricate hand-cut leaf art is all a rage now. Last year his artworks were auctioned in Milan to raise funds to provide clean water in Tanzania. To this Manchester-based Iranian artist, leaves are representative of our "too short" lives. Hence he yearned to give the leaves "longer life" through art.
