Alexander von Humboldt...

...was a great explorer and as I went to a high school that was named after him, sometimes I feltl like an explorer myself even if we haven't been working in the same field.
Mixing older elements with new ones creates a style of its own. Artists can act as explorers if they work on unfamiliar areas.
Chasing the phantoms in your computers harddrive to create new images might just fall under this category.

The better you look the more you see