Abscission: the natural detachment of parts of a plant. Autumn Abscission was a project for Rubbish to Runway, a sustainabilty fashion show that displays designs created using recycled and sustainable materials. For this project, I reused an old project, refinished and tooled a design on the vegetable tanned cowhide bodice. I cut out hundreds of deciduous leaves with a cnc knife cutting machine out of a variety of oil, vegetable and chrome tanned scrap leather pieces. At the 2019 show, this project won the Judge’s Choice Award. Photos of this project were published on boston.com, Getty Images and in the Hungarian publication Nepszava.