It is important to think about art more holistically than just through the ideas of abstraction. This is because abstraction is and can only ever be a visual language. The artist must still speak through the visual language, creating their own messages to transport their ideas. Regardless of the visual language which is utilised, whether it be abstraction, representational or a mixture of the both, a successful artwork, for me, is one which creates a situation which allows philosophical questions to be opened and explored, a situation which attempts to understand the human condition and its many complexities.