Jade Leaf is an abstract computer painting inspired by botanical forms. The images were made with a keyboard on a Cubicomp and IBM-AT, using Lumena, Easel and PC-10 software. Digital images were shot onto 16mm film using a Bolex camera, mounted on a tripod, pointed at the monitor. Jade Leaf is the first computer animated film made at California Institute of the Arts. Priestley was in the school's first computer animation class (1984-85), taught by Vibeke Sorensen.
—Joanna Priestley