Something delicate and highly prized. A friend gave me a number of Native American pottery shards found hiking in Arizona. Some had bits of painted or textured design. I retold the story of their dispersion over centuries, having been discarded as trash and left in middens, which then wore down leaving shards spread down hillsides and deposited in arroyos. I created plateaus out of handmade paper and wire mesh to suggest Southwestern mesas. Then inset the shards, adding additional handmade paper in brighter colors to suggest water and vegetation. In the center, I placed an antique drawer with three of the best shards floated inside to suggest the collector’s gathering and love of these pieces.