life happens

i am going to be out-of-pocket for a couple of days while i take my daughter down to the mayo clinic for a couple of days of medical testing (she’s fine, we are trying to get to the bottom of a nagging GI problem that won’t go away).  as a result, i am re-sharing this old STILL photo for a couple of years ago. it’s one of my favorite assemblages, and i didn’t even make it–my then 15-year old son made it for me. i said “joseph, help your mom out, make me an assemblage i can use for STILL today.” normally he passively ignores such requests, but this time, he stopped, looked over my collections table, and very systematically made this composition in a matter of minutes. i asked “joe, how did you choose what to put it in?”. he said, as he walked away, “i picked things with interesting shapes.”

composition of found nature bits