In abstract.hyphen.realities, two visual themes are interwoven to emphasize the extent to which our lives and our awareness of the world are ‘hyphenated’—subdivided and segmented, interspersed with starkly different activities from day-to-day, even from moment-to-moment. Buildings, building skins and details, and city artifacts are presented in black and white, abstractly, both to reveal and challenge their reality. Interspersed are crudely beautiful ‘abstract paintings,’ all of a set, the yellow dividing lines that stripe our nation’s roadways, new and old, cracking, crumbling, worn and abraded—the ‘hyphens’ that become assertive realities in their own right, simultaneously offering relief and heightening awareness and meaning of the abstracted subjects in the black and white photographs.