Abstraction

This work exists in referential abstraction.
The guitar is not illustrated or reproduced — it is invoked.
What remains is surface, gesture, pressure, and residue.

The image carries the memory of sound rather than its depiction.
Edges dissolve the way notes do when they leave the room.
What you’re seeing isn’t an object; it’s a trace of touch and rhythm.

I’m less interested in what a guitar looks like than in what it leaves behind —
the afterimage of vibration, the quiet weight of use,
and the emotional space sound occupies once the instrument is gone.

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Melt 5 — Referential Abstraction and the Guitar Remembered