While Artist-in-Residence in Great Basin National Park I found myself picking up bits of human detritus--rusted
cans, cow bones, beer bottles, etc. as well as natural scraps--dead leaves, bark, and so forth.

I also stopped at the Oak Springs BLM Trilobyte site finding rebar as well as fossils. As I journeyed home
I stopped at the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge finding feathers and shotgun shells. I was struck by the contrast
and painted a series of these objects. I then made the paintings into this book; so of course the covers had to be
both human and natural! Sean Petrie of Typewriter Rodeo wrote a brief poem for each panel, which I included on
semi-transparent overlays for each page.

You can see/hear a video of the book and those poems on Vimeo:

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