Doktorski's sculptures are small and irregularly shaped to give viewers the sense that they are looking at a tiny part of something much larger.

Her work zeros in on the specific and the familiar: a doll's head juxtaposed with crushed soda cans, the corner of a mattress next to a tattered book.

"There's a Where's Waldo aspect to it that keeps people looking for a while," Doktorski says. "They're seeing things they've thrown out, that they might have at home in their own garbage can."