In suspending the space between intentional and the accidental, Coffey engages in a ritualistic -
aleatory play between figuration, motion, and tension, and thus establishes a set of new ground rules of art
making / presentation.
Features that once drew their meaning by seemingly not being his, now seem to be almost compulsive traits: we imagine Polke still obsessing over minute printing errors, over the
aleatory stretched effects
made by moving an image while it is being photocopied, over the bacterial and toxic - looking residues brought about by mixing resins and paints with foreign substances.