This silliness has gone far enough. All this combining of layers of different objects, with no real reason to be together, is making me punch drunk. By the end of the night, every time I caught this grouping out of the corner of my eye, I was seeing the pepper as a big fist punching through the silver frame. Tomorrow I'm definitely going to have to find another way to interpret Found Object Art.
Before I read your narrative, I actually thought the pepper was a tooth- maybe one that someone had left for the tooth fairy long ago. This image definitely lends itself to all sorts of interpretations :)