Beautifully Abandoned

I have this great friend, who is also a photographer. She is my guide through some of this adventure.

I have this major pet peeve of littering. It instantly makes me crazy, and makes me want to punch whomever is doing it right in the teeth. But I have a fascination for abandoned garbage. I don't mean trash as in food wrappers, those kinds of things just make me angry. But the abandoned household items that so many people just drop on the side of the road, or into wooded areas, or beaches. These things intrigue me. I still hate every single bit of it, but there is something about each item, the way they are placed, and the items they are with that gives me a sense of story. What is the story of the items that got dropped? why aren't they wanted anymore? Who are these people who drop this stuff? and most importantly, why does it seem like it's always dropped in a potentially nice area? It's crazy to think that inanimate objects have feelings, but for a time it's like you can feel they've been rejected. Sometimes I think people get rid of their things in areas where they know there are homeless people, or tweakers so the abandoned items will no longer feel like rejects.
For my final I propose to show the kind of items these people throw away and the areas that surround them. My goal for this project is to make the public aware of how frequent these things happen, but then again how frequent these items get picked right back up and made into home materials once again, for those who don't necessarily have a home.

Here are some examples of some of my most recent work.