Working within a range of media including assemblage, drawing, printing and painting, she has explored floral, fauna, folklore and symbols.

Youn and colleagues got around that jam by borrowing an idea from metamaterials, assemblages of discrete parts that act like continuous materials and can have novel properties.

“They assemble components of the systems that work for them in any given context. … Dominionism in the NAR is a fluid assemblage of ideas, traditions and practices that are invoked as they seem applicable.”

“They took trash, and they turned it into these extraordinary works. Some of them were exuberant, they did installations, assemblages and that really created it,” he said.

The criticized tableau evoked an assemblage of Greek gods, not “The Last Supper,” and Khelif is, in fact, a woman.