Researching Leaves

I am in group B so I didn't get a chance to have people critique my work yet. 


So I spent the day researching what it is that I eventually want to do for thesis.


The story basically is that I went for a walk one morning during the summer and found this leaf that was bigger than my head. I thought nothing more of it until I started to walk away. I couldn't help but think that I NEEDED to take that leaf and do something with it, anything. While I was walking home with it I came to the conclusion that I wanted to make it into a mask. I cut it up in the sense that I left the veins of the leaf intact and I cut all around them. 

[In case you have no idea what I mean, it was this style of work]

[This is NOT my work, just an example of the style of my work]

I fell in love with this style and made a few more smaller ones (leaves). I want to find some way to incorporate typography onto a leaf and maybe cut it out? I'm still not 100% sure exactly but like I was told by you guys (our teachers), it's good not to have a solid idea because it's probably going to get changed anyway. But this is my main idea and I hope it doesn't change too much.
Here are some more images of my style of work

The main artist who works on this style of work is 

Lorenzo Duran 

and he is definitely gifted