II. FOUND OBJECTS

An important part of our art making, without all the camera gear and chemicals, includes traversing a place, whether on foot or by boat, to observe. Found objects are a gift. Commonplace things, like a fallen cabbage palm frond, and unusual things, like an almost entirely intact manatee spine, surprise us. Place is in the found object. That’s a remarkable insight. Certain registers of meaning, and modes of understanding the great system, are best approached through the objects themselves. It’s a kind of close reading.