Elements of the Strand: This collage may be the aqueous corollary to “out of the frying pan and into the fire”. If we’re lucky we begin being welcomed, named and blessed with best wishes, sent off into the respectable banquet of life, down the road that leads from home into the intoxicated world where we are judged by the respectable, and, when found guilty, are flushed, put into the place they have prepared for us and washed out to sea where we are made squeaky clean.