this is the first step in an experiment about the minimum number of objects necessary to define a place. there are fifteen objects here that all speak to me about the languedoc, and more specifically about this tiny subregion of the hérault department located in the  languedoc where we currently find ourselves. each object has both subjective and objective meaning. in other words, each object truly belongs, objectively, in this place, and at the same time these objects have stories associated with them that are subjective to me personally, and that amount to a kind of love song from mary jo to the part of the languedoc that runs from the foothills of the espinouse mountains to the mediterranean shoreline between sète and marseillan-plage. the next question is, how many of these could i remove and still have the images define this specific place, without also defining some other, similar place. hmmm. ok here we go…

cypress cone, grapes, land snail, wild carrot, sea glass, wild blackberry, beach rock, wild teasel, thyme, olives, shells, fig leaf thistle, lunaria, wild fennel

autignac, france