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, recently 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

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