Isolate anything enough from it’s surroundings and it immediately takes on the quality of abstraction. It’s interesting that artists throughout history and particularly those abstract artists like Jackson Pollack or John Hoyland should spend so much time agonising over making a mark when workmen do it perfectly and just so on the streets every day without ever suffering the agony or even particularly thinking about it.

Unused wooden panels stacked up against a fence in a garden, forgotten and left to the elements become perfect and complex abstract works when the correct process of observation and isolation happens.