The Path of Derivation

In art we think non-representation is abstraction. My page here shows a path of derivation -- that is, abstraction -- in four frames.

Abstraction also has a farther reach:  a tree, a house, a dog and boulder hold nothing, so it seems, in common. But there is one thing -- they all own cubic magnitude. Thus, solid form is an abstraction of each thing we see -- an abstraction of the world.