I've gotten word that the material I collected and shipped from Antarctica is at Port Hueneme on its way to San Francisco, so it won't be long before it arrives. I'll introduce the items as I unpack them, and will document their eventual incorporation into the artwork. 
In the meanwhile, I'm formulating ideas for my compositions in a sketchbook I started recently. I'll post pages here throughout the project to show their role in the process. The entries will be out of page order (that's how I work on them) and in various stages of progress. The book will serve as a means of exploring shapes, colors, textures, and line; a place to work out the technical aspects of construction; a lab for spontaneous experimentation, for trying out found objects for size, and for re-working sketches and concepts to perfection... or to ruin. It's a testing ground.