“ In the right light, I will cast a shadow, and in having a shadow I will also have an outline that can indicate my "abstract" presence, like a corpse that the police have walked and talked and chalked around and taken off to coronate. This silhouette from which my "shape" will be taken, like my elongating or retreating shade upon a sunny lawn, won't be called "an abstraction," however; it will merely be my silhouette or shadow.”

Excerpt From: William H. Gass & Michael Eastman. “Abstractions Arrive.”