Early on in my return to photography, when I was shooting everything on the Pentax K1000, everything was new to me: every place in Louisville, included. One day I drove down to Eva Bandman Park on the Ohio River, a place where one is apt to find fisherman on the banks. The park is set beside a sand company, with its mountains of sand, and in the river, there are a number of metal abutments close to the shore. I walked in a patch of woods along the river, often filled with trash, and found something remarkable: a statue of Ganesha, a Hindu god of wisdom. It was broken into a few pieces. I could not imagine how it had gotten there, or why. What I did was simply set it upright and photograph it on 35mm Kodak Portra 160, one of my absolute favorite films of the times. I call this one of my “Totems,” a small series of photographs I did about that time where I’d find little emblems of spirituality in the landscape. When I returned to this spot, all traces of Ganesha were gone.