Mr Dybek considers several similarly timeworn themes, such as the spaces that grow between people, and especially the currents that set fathers and sons adrift.
Whereas DNA samples from a living animal can run to several hundreds of thousands of letters, the timeworn mammoth samples yielded strands mere dozens of letters long.
Identity and connection, it's your task to take those timeworn concepts, spin them around, reinvigorate them, make them fresh and new and exciting. And you can do this.