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When I was little(er) I fixed on the fantasy that we were living on a dust speck in a giant world. That idea is exciting and terrifying. Exciting because it means that there is so much more to learn than we can even conceive of, and terrifying because we could be squashed at any moment. I try to be like Horton, the elephant who found a world in a dust speck, and pay attention to the small worlds around me.

I get a thrill when people who have seen these photos bring me things: burnt out spark plug cables, computer motherboards, desiccated fruit peels, half eaten muffins, and say, "I saw this and I thought of you! Isn’t it great! Isn’t it beautiful?" That sort of response makes me really happy, thinking that perhaps my pictures encouraged someone to see things a little differently and a little more joyfully.

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