I am continually intrigued by detritus: things accumulating in gutters, fireplaces and compost piles. There is a beauty in decomposition and refuse, in odd assembled groups of objects that I find visually intriguing. This current body of work references still life objects with the idea of color or absence of color: Black can be all colors or the complete absence of color. White is never fully white since it absorbs and reflects the colors and values around it. Grey is many variations of mixes of values. Using observation, I am interested in how we determine such simple categories for such complex ideas of color or shades utilizing an assortment of objects that loosely tie together via color or shade.