Leafsong
Medium: Ink and watercolor on paper
Size: 12" x 9"
Year: 2023
About this piece
A small leaf emerged quietly between moss-covered rocks.
When I came across a photo of a Japanese garden, it was this unassuming leaf that caught my attention—
as if it were speaking, without sound, simply by being alive.
I was drawn to the quiet strength and calm beauty that lived within a world of only stone and green.
That gentle feeling is what I hoped to express through this painting.
Leafsong
Lyrics by Eimei
【Verse 1】
Between the rocks where silence grows,
A leaf begins, the sunlight knows.
No trumpet sounds, no grand parade,
Just life in green and gentle shade.
【Verse 2】
Its tender voice, a whispered song,
Where moss has quietly slept so long.
No need for words to touch the sky,
It breathes, it sways—and so do I.
【Chorus】
Beneath the stillness, time will flow,
And through the cracks, new spirits grow.
We learn to pause, to simply be,
To sing with stone and maple tree.
【Verse 3】
So let me rest where green things start,
With quiet hills and open heart.
And hear the leaf in evening’s light—
A song of peace, in moss and white.