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The nature of abstraction, as a form of thinking and a language applied to visual traditions of Modernism, evades us. It tricks us into believing there is an inevitability of recognition - a form or solution to the otherwise complex and contradicting ways of perception and interpretation. “Forgive me for not knowing what I am looking at”, is, perhaps a statement of contempt and an apology for the otherwise over-explicit claims to knowledge and certainty one is preconditioned to expect from the world.

However, when jumping off the precipice of knowledge, the flight of abstractions is perhaps …