Conversation One : a preface

Part of a cycle of works entitled "sixteen conversations on abstraction". Sixteen fictional conversations, sixteen subsequent works, and one sculpture (which functions as a diagram, mapping the connections amongst the different conversations) comprise the main organizing principle of the cycle. The three principle elements form an abstract space for, among other things, characters, places, and topics in which the term abstraction is examined, formulated, and constructed and deconstructed at the same time, on various levesl, and from different perspectives.