Rhopography:

A category of art. The visual representation of trivial, commonplace, usually overlooked things: uneaten food on a plate, a lost glove, wilting flowers. Still life.

Photographers practice rhopography when they capture found still life compositions — such as the two pictured here — not set-up or constructed on purpose but discovered accidentally and happily influenced by the gods of Serendipity. Bales of hay in the flow of world history do seem trivial; however, here in these configurations under warm light they achieve a kind of monumentality. You might observe a scene like the one depicted above at an archaeological site among royal pyramids, where building blocks are left scattered by vandals or by ancient workmen. While the straw-bale structures you see here do not rival the colossal works at Giza or Teotihuacan, they are impressive viewed up-close, each standing taller than a three-story building.