The "Compost Mandalas" were images for a 52-week desk engagement calendar. Every week for a year I photographed the contents of a Rubbermaid bin that sat in a drawer directly below the kitchen cutting board. I did not arrange the contents except for flattening them a bit to decrease the required depth of field.
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