"The metamorphic process or metamorphism features in Paul Mosig and Rachel Peachey's work where the body is physically transformed, mineralised, or crystallised. Here the psychological transformation is wrought tangible. In the photographic work Fall of land, the transmutation is expressed as the head and face becoming iron pyrites or fool's gold. Like one of the old alchemical images that functioned as a recipe or instructions for the metallic transmutations and other alchemic processes, each element in this image is rich with symbolic weight. The mineralisation of the face, the waterfall coming from the mouth and a gold band around the neck. An invitation to decode.

Similarly, in the photographic artwork, Turn me to stone, the great opposites of human nature, extraversion and introversion, manifest. The tension between the two plays a significant role in the history of alchemy. Resulting in some alchemists presupposing that the answers they were looking for were not in the material world outside of them but in themselves. In their own bodies and in that part of their personality, we call the unconscious."

Joyce Hinterding