4 artist friends gathered on a winter afternoon each bringing "collected detritus" and piled it in the middle of the table. We challenged ourselves to 10 minutes to pull items from the pile to create an assemblage. My medium is encaustic, mixed media, and photography. I was definitely out of my comfort zone creating an assemblage piece that stretched my imagiination and to work quickly. It was fun with many laughs and encouragement and I was surprised and quite pleased with my creation!