“The corpse, seen without God and outside of science, is the utmost of abjection. It is death infecting life. Abject. It is something rejected from which one does not part, from which one does not protect oneself as from an object. Imaginary uncanniness and real threat, it beckons to us and ends up engulfing us.” Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia UP, 1982). Layers II marks a juncture. The abject: the desecrated, destroyed, rejected object, came to dominate my investigations of EXPLORING CHANGE. The remains of Layers I was the point of departure.