By J. and Janelle Overton

This water pool stone is an amalgamate of rusted metal, glass, coral, and sand collected in shallow waters offshore from a Caribbean Island, near where debris and discarded aircraft parts had once been dumped. The suiban was made by Janelle Overton. It is displayed on a moss-covered shelf in our backyard in Washington state. It evokes the transience of human creations and those products’ eventual reclamation, and improvement, by nature. This new anthropogenic stone is 17 cm wide and 8 cm high and has not been modified.