The little power plant object is nearly complete. One of my regular nature walks is along the Charlestown side of the Mystic River estuary in Boston. It’s a place teetering on the brink between industrial past and environmental present. This somewhat abstract diorama depicts the view of the electric generating substation I see on the Everett side of the river. My sense of the place is expressed in the bone-white plant (in real life, its red brick), the burnt wood evoking the rotted pilings of long-gone piers, and the fresh gull’s feather, which I found there recently, dominating all, because the gulls were there long before the power plant, and they’ll be there long after it’s gone as well.

It still needs a few details, but I’m pleased with the effect so far.