PROJECT OBJECT #4

from Keri Smith's blog (11/18/2005)
I've gotten a bit behind on project object--only up to four--but it might be because I've been spring cleaning, trying to get rid of so many objects, so many things and attachments.
That being said, I'm still adhered to memory and how objects can make the past and the present jostle around and knock into each other.

I'm always picking things up: a rock, an old marble on the ground, anything. When I come home, I try to "assemble" those walks into small, found statues. This "object" is from our first walk over to the Taughannock Falls. It was winter still and there was just this small, dried and wilted, piece of green next to all of this shale rock. Jesse slid down on the ice and I picked up the pieces of shale, put them in my pocket with the piece of green. Later, by the falls, a small piece of driftwood with a hole in it. When we got home, I put the shale and "plant" into the driftwood and felt like we'd found something of spring before it was here.