After being retired for about 10 years I decided to go back to work. Something mindless that would get me out of the house for a few hours a week and help pay for my golf habit.  I took a job at a local grocery store stocking shelves.  

Each morning the manager of the produce section would go through the fruits, vegetable, and flowers and cull out things that were past their prime.  They would eventually be donated to a local farmer. In the meantime, they sat in a box in the back room.  I just happened to be looking at that particular box one day and noticed some wilted roses.  They struck me as potential subjects for a still life photograph – so I asked the manager if I could take them.  “You’re not going to give them to your wife are you?” Was her immediate reply. I assured her I was not so unromantic as to offer my wife a bunch of dying roses.  I just wanted to see if I could turn them into something beautiful.

That’s how this project of giving withered and dying things a second life started.  As time past, I would eventually add objects people had decided outlived their usefulness.