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More subtly, she was abstracting architectural objects – starting with little metal souvenirs of the Empire State Building and the Sagrada Família – and playing with ideas of "not quite defying gravity" by suspending objects.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

She was walking slowly and looking down as she went, as if some thought was abstracting her.

From In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim by Burnett, Frances Hodgson