For years I had maintained a ready supply of shredded materials--personal papers, junk mail, old photographs, CDs/DVDs/CCs (who doesn't, right?)--with the intention of fleshing out any of the multitude of creative ideas for using shredded paper that had been rattling around my brain. These photographs represent a sampling from the first such major exploration of shredded materials. Inspired by everyday observations and impressions, they were immediately motivated by my increasingly rapid purge of extraneous and re-obtainable materials in preparation for an impending change of venue. The images created are computer re-mastered photographs of shredded paper & plastic on canvas and printed on metal.