While I don't have a lot of time these days for making art, lately I have been exploring on a concept I worked with as part of my college art minor-using cropped compositions to de-contextualize real life still life's into abstract imagery. Drawing/Painting was the medium I was working with in school, but I got re-interested in this and some tangents of it, because I discovered that my cell phone camera does it very well, and its limitations as a camera accentuate its ability to create abstracts and/or interestingly alter appropriated images. Not rocket science, but I like abstract images and consider this an interesting way of achieving them. Here is my finger, and the appropriated image my phone pulled from my mother-in law's camera manual.