I set up a small shrine with an unlit candle in a cardboard sandbox. It sat next to the sink. Inconspicuous in a corner. There were shells, bits of beach plastic and some polyester petals from a gravestone placed nilly-willy on the little sand bed. We, as a society, unthinkingly embrace and enshrine plastic. That is what my little sandbox symbolized.

Not surprisingly, nobody who visited the garage for Noosa Open Studios noticed the or commented on the “shrine”. At the close of NOS, I picked up all the plastic flotsam. Using some of the remaining elements in the sandbox, I quickly created this photographic homage to our beautiful beach before restoring the sink to its utilitarian function.