Shine Size:Small (8 x 8 in) Lighter colored beach glass and

Lighter colored beach glass and white chunks of tile only work in my photographs when I use a dark background

The title of this piece comes from one of my favorite outlaw country singers

For the longest time I was determined to include everything I found on the beach - from a single day's walk - in one all-encompassing photograph

I had a few pieces of plastic in very well-defined shapes that seemed like letters from a foreign alphabet

It was brought to my attention that this is the fate of many migrants

Shine Size:Small (8 x 8 in) Lighter colored beach glass andThis composition took a good long while to lay out. I was working with a lot of small and medium pieces of frosted beach glass and I was trying something new with several circular templates I'd cut out of a large poster board. I was listening to a playlist of instrumental music and there was one tune that was really pulling me in, so I hit the repeat button and played it over and over again. This allowed me to ease into a zone and stay there,