Post 3- Fragmentation

When pressed to say what this image represents, each viewer may have a different answer. But with a similarly zoomed photograph of what this painting represents, there would be a similar result. This is to say, abstraction doesn't just exist in art, a photograph could be equally as unclassifiable and present to us an abstraction of reality. 

This fragment of Raymond Pettibon's work represents the water within a plastic water bottle. But without the context of a zoom level that we are more accustomed to, its features which help us to classify the object are obscured, and we perceive it as abstract. It is this sense of perspective which is applicable to not only art, but so many other realms of life. Once we lose perspective, life can turn on its head, and the big picture is gone.