Twice in my life I have experienced a bird of prey flying over my yard and dropping a pecked out golf ball. I realized the bird of prey had been flying over a golf course and mistook a golfball as an egg. In 2016 A bald eagle dropped this golf ball into my yard in Fleischmanns, New York. During the following year I was involved in a number of projects involving nature, The first was the collecting of objects from nature that represented life, death, and re-birth. I was collecting rotting logs, skulls, bird nests, and broken roots that resembled snakes. I was using 3-d scanning and printing to re-create nature in a very exact way. During the summer of 2017 I took a gold leafing workshop with Laura Sue King at the Painter’s gallery in Flieschmanns, NY. It was through the process of applying gold leaf to an object I could make ay object appear precious and culturally valuable. I goal was to make my audience look at ordinary objects from nature that were in the process of decay and make the object and the process valuable. Decay eventually leads to rebirth and new growth. As a culture facing an environmental crisis we must embrace waste and decay and an important step to environment rebirth.