Abstract

"To achieve an effect by grouping shapes and colours in satisfying patterns rather than by the recognizable representation of physical reality. The abstract allows the beholder to see the purity of forms and colours without the distraction of a specific identity. The inability to enjoy the abstract is perhaps an indictation of too much of a dependency upon the familiar... The challenge to seek out and discover new dimensions and channels of communication is ever present in abstract art. Knowing that photography has the disadvantage of being firmly grounded in reality, I have, in the images before you, attempted to escape that reality for a while yet somehow still depicting it..."
(Mikkel Urup, 2003)

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