Elkalaawy’s surfaces seem to teem with an accidentality that keeps the viewer not a little mystified in that it at first remains abundantly unclear as to whether this precarious state of layering is consciously orchestrated or not. This fortuity stems from the artist’s search for a timelessness: a happenstance that evokes both happening and happened locked into her object, the often-nebulous ground that supports it and, of course, the clever craft she employs to articulate it.