Elementology

In some odd way, though, such manipulation is hardly ever the ultimate transformation of images and ideas: a recombination of elements, rather. And peculiar to the process of the three artists is that those elements somehow manage, individually, always to preserve their original forms and meanings never to be fully transformed into something completely new and different.

That is why, of their final images, we are able to read and spell all the ingredients: recollect what they are, where they come from, where we