Abstraction is seemingly an ontological inquiry into reality attempting to relinquish and deconstruct commonplace forms to escape corporeal conditioning by accessing diverse methods of representation. Representation, a binary concept, can enable and limit form or disposition whilst endeavouring to capture conceptual notions. An indistinguishable mark, a splatter of colour, or an undefined texture may provide perspective into the human psyche that perpetuates an innate cognitive understanding or visceral experience despite the irony of context, interpretation and semantic processes. It seeks to express beyond what is physical despite the analytical consciousness and being rooted in such concepts to materialise. Language semantics divides, and the internalisation of boundaries perpetuates a natural emphasis on distinction and separation. To counter this confinement, processes of abstraction lead to engaging in deconstruction and reformation that lend potential to transform ideas and experiment with interconnection at play through the multitudes of cultural landscapes, individual reasonings and collective certainty that inevitably capitulate a subjective perspective. It resonates almost instinctively as it alludes to ideas connected to the human condition, a unique yet universal state of existence situated in so-called physical reality but perhaps not limited to it.

wRITTEN by Katarina Ortiz