"This is the alchemic vessel, resistant to change, constantly being transformed. This is us, vulnerable, insulated, entirely self-contained yet altogether at the mercy of the elements. The Ship of Fools is sailing tonight and all of us are aboard." (Jeanette Winterson/The Fool/from "Gut Symmetries") "Transformation"--portrait of Ron Whitehead draped in the carcass of a shorebird.