Allowing for the remarkable contrasts, Ker believes he can still trace at least one theme
through the work of all six of his subjects, a theme that has little to do with the obvious «motifs» of English Catholicism such as «
aestheticism, a love of ritual, ceremony, tradition, the appeal of authority, a romantic triumphalism, the lure of the exotic and foreign, a preoccupation with sin and guilt.»
Through abstract image and words, sublimity and narration, the natural world and constructed reality, Weinberg tailors chance into an
aestheticism harkening to her personal experience growing up female in the 60s and 70s.