The practice of alchemy, a precursor to modern chemistry, was
a deep philosophical inquiry based on the desire to discover a way to transform base metals into gold.
The austere still - life photographs of Jan Groover, who died in 2012, make the kitchen table a site of
deep spatial and
philosophical inquiry, closing in on utensils until they start too look like Surrealist abstractions or pulling back to reveal Morandi-esque arrangements of vessels.