We know it's a shadow only because the other one is white. I really enjoy little vignettes in paintings. Where there's little happenings and they become something else to you. You could almost put them into a kind of like poem or something, you know, you could talk about it in your head. Make it into a little word poem instead of a visual poem.
Green leaves merge dropping into black, reflecting back to the brown.
It's almost like a cycle there. I did it to my drawings a lot. I write poems about my drawings. It keeps me open. It keeps me from getting too myopic.