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All the Things Discarded

Papakōlea Beach, Hawai'i, Hawaii

 

This pile of detritus - ghost nets, plastic tubs, and other things that wash up on the southern shore - caught my eye for its strangely aesthetic quality. Tossed together randomly, the bits and pieces somehow fuse into an almost elegantly organic cacaphony. Against a spartan background of windswept dune grasses, this heap of trash seems against all odds to be vibrantly and uncontrollably alive. Unnatural as they may be, the things we create have a way of taking on a life of their own.

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Uploaded on December 21, 2023
Taken on December 17, 2018