A beautiful image that uses a real-world object to create, or at least to suggest, something else. I suppose some might argue that it's not technically 'abstract' in art terms, in that it's representational. But it is representational of something other than what it actually is, so I figure that qualifies. And the thing that it represents is a state, rather than an object. In any case, more than 90% of the entries in this challenge are not even vaguely abstract, so you're way ahead! I applaud the vision, the elegance and the sympathetic title. 9.