ARTIFACTS OF AN INVASIVE SPECIES #4

Our home, this planet, this exact piece of dirt I’m standing on. We trash it, constantly, in so many ways. Curiously that entropy and time turns the trash into treasure - a way to touch the past. Someone once ate a can of sardines here. A child once threw broken pottery shards here. Why is that memory from the past so seductive when yesterdays Bud Light cans are so offensive?

2023 • Found Objects
Paula Green
(Truth or Consequences, NM)