That idea of the accidental — how one seemingly random gesture can utterly transform something — comes up frequently.
Thirty-one-year-old Abel Bentín shows how you can transform something negative into a positive work of art.
Four main areas need particular attention: culture, products, funding and the cost of operations.The cultural challenge is to transform something that started as charity into a proper business.
Looking around Witanhurst, he was taken aback: "It was quite daunting, really, to think that you're going to have to transform something like that".
The other houses had been fixed up, but the one in Edgemont won them over in part because it needed work and they wanted to transform something.
A small scallop of ham and a half-dozen leaves of tarragon also helped to transform something that might have been banal into a work of aspic art.
"Maybe we can use them for solar panels to generate electricity for Los Angeles, to transform something that's been devastating for our land and water into something that can generate revenue for your family, for your kids".
The filmmakers, Vincent Canby wrote in The Times in 1984, "supply explanations that the novel resolutely avoided, reshape characters for dramatic convenience and, strangest of all, they transform something dark and open-ended — truly fabulous — into something eccentrically sentimental".
That, perhaps, is the challenge the royals have failed to accept: how do you transform something that is distant and revered into something more familiar without loss of respect?
She can transform something as prosaic as a box of lightbulbs into a meditation on our finite existence, with their wattage engineered to match moonlight and their lifespan of 66 years reflecting that of the average human.
How you transform something; how you use the letters".
