Location: Ireland

No matter where you go on the globe, if an ocean is nearby, flotsam can be found in abundance.  Just as rocks and sand are sorted and separated by the motion of the waves, so, at times, is human trash.  Wandering along Ireland’s beautiful west coast for a month one summer, I came across a mound of aeresol cans, all of similar size and weight, that had been battered by the elements and gathered by oceanic forces to be deposited in this one particular spot.  I sorted through them and found three that I liked, set them on top of rocks near the ocean’s edge, and then did exposures of them while lighting each individually by flashlight.  I’m not sure of where exactly the ozone layer lies in the evening sky above, but the cans speak to it anyway.