Some asides...

First, a few of my latest inspirations:

Nancy Spero:

http://aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com/2011_02_06_archive.html

http://shiftingconnections.com/2013/02/08/tell-it-slant/

Robert Rauschenberg:

www.moma.org

http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=66573&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisconsinhistory.org%2Fwhi%2Fresults.asp%3Fsubject_narrow%3DNudes

Nature, full circle:

I put some old prints outside before the big blizzard to see what would happen--

A few months ago I sealed an aloe plant in a plexi box.  I am still documenting it through photogarphs and writing on the box....  I displayed it on top of photographs of the dried aloe and the "boxed" aloe: