I’ve been obsessed with the jewelry found in the wreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha since National Geographic published the photos. As a kid, fondling the issue the way other kids obsessed over naked boobies, I decided to figure out how to make my own copies of them, because I knew I’d never be able to own the real thing. As an adult, I now look at museum displays and think, “I want that. I’m going to copy that for myself.” I’m currently making fake plant fossils for my bathroom walls out of stucco…
Years go by, and I’m watching a ‘true crime’ TV show that claimed Mel Fisher sold more shipwrecked coins than were ever recorded in the original manifest…
