In the spirit of a reorientation to the everyday, my series “Pot bottoms," 2004-08, present the bottoms of pots and pans, revealing the changes that occur imperceptibly, and over time, on the undersides of these cooking utensils. Thrown into detailed focus is the daily contact between metals, fire and a variety of foods and products. The final photographs, showing different sized “discs” floating in black, either metallic or boldly colored, are ‘abstractions’ and yet, still pots, shifted to another scale. That these can be compared to planets, individual and clustered, and otherwise range from the “optical” to seemingly “archaeological” activates the surprise of seeing simultaneously ‘straight’ and metaphorically, seeing ‘the thing itself’ and ‘the thing as other.’