When I paint, I combine abstraction and representation, but I don’t create any systems in the abstract or figurative form within which objects, figures, and strokes find their order.
When we look at the abstraction, we do not necessarily think of figure or object, but abstraction has that notion of physicality in the process of making it.
For instance, Pollock or Rothko used specific objects, tools beside brushes that created the painting. It goes back to the first question about the duality of the painting.
The form itself is interesting and does not need much representation, but can’t have much meaning around it – as when we bring the figuration or combination of abstract and representation.