Reclamation has become integral to my working process. Cigarette lighters were the first item that I obsessively gathered during daily walks on Long Beach in Southern California. After learning the detrimental effects that discarded plastics have on marine life, the lighter reclamation began. After two years of walking the waterline, I reclaimed over 2,000 plastic cigarette lighters in a three mile stretch of beach. The lighters are now housed at the education center of the Los Angeles Oiled Bird Care Center.