And the rocks have been very good indeed to Mr. Distenfeld, who has mined a recycle-happy, all-natural friendly cultural moment to build his commercial career.
The material seems recycled from bits of "Happy, Texas," "Little Miss Sunshine," and a host of other Sundance favorites, and although that may sound gleefully anarchic, the result is mostly baffling.
The practice of perspective, invented to imagine a bucolic world where pastoral fancies were enacted in a neverland of happy radiance, is recycled in Kiefer's landscapes to exterminate the fantasy.
Americans are happy and proud to buy and use recycled toilet paper, but a composting toilet is another matter, a level most people won't even think about.
In reality most people are happy to recycle and keen to waste less.
As Latin Americans invent their own kind of rock, they eagerly recycle music from afar, happy to mix and mismatch.
Central banks and sovereign-wealth funds in the emerging economies seemed only too happy to recycle their current-account surpluses into the government bonds of rich countries.
For Hine, the literal truth was less important than the symbolic impact of the image, and he was happy to recycle certain images for different purposes.
And foreign central banks are happy to recycle their trade surplus dollars into U.S. bonds to keep their exports humming.
And, Asian and other foreigners want a stronger buck to aid their exports, most of which go directly or indirectly to the U.S., and are happy to recycle their current-account deficit dollars.
