Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Chaos

I must admit, I like some forms of chaos. For starters, I like some of the rocks strewn around my house, especially the ones my sapphire-mining neighbor, Blaze Wharton, calls chaos stone. I’ve posted a photograph of a specimen I unearthed on my property, a stone alive with swirling, unruly colors.

Good stuff.

For the last week or so, Desiree and I have been working on another challenging jigsaw puzzle. This one features a panda bear in a thicket of bamboo and is rife with disparate colors. Yesterday, and I’m still not quite sure how I pulled it off, I snapped together six pieces I consider pure chaos. Even assembled, they look wrong, as if they don’t belong anywhere in the larger picture. I set them aside as a little island of order and have yet to place them properly in the puzzle.

I like a good chaotic challenge now and then.

I’ve posted photographs of the puzzle and the chaos pieces.

Chaos Stone

Chaos Puzzle Pieces

The Puzzle

—Mitchell Hegman

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