Is there really a difference between abstract and representational art?  Even in representations of nature, the artist abstracts from the place and the moment.  Likewise, something of human experiences is always represented in so-called abstract art. 

John Gross explores the interplay of abstraction and representation.  Working mostly with expressionistic effects in acrylic, John has recently been using the representational medium of digital photography to capture abstract images that present themselves ‘just-like-that’ in the real world.  Sometimes these abstractions re-present familiar places and things.  John calls them “found paintings”.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes,
 but in having new eyes."                   --Marcel Proust