In Karen Barad’s Diffractions: Differences, Contingencies, and Entanglements that Matter, she talks about reflexivity- the examination of one’s own beliefs, judgments, and practices during the research process and how these underlying factors may have influenced the research, which brings out questions regarding authenticity and realness in the research results. In the article, Barad points out that diffraction has been widely used as a metaphor for describing the methodological approach to the relations of “relations of difference and how they matter”.1 In Tristan Garcia’s “The Photographic Real”, she points out the situation that photography has become the dominating purveyor of the real in our representations. However, there is this about when a photograph is taken, could the photographic image be considered as reality? Both authors discuss the definition of realness and explore means of representing realness. The greatest extent of realness is achieved when admitting some of the drawbacks of these approaches.

As one thinks of abstraction, people would first associate the term with compound paintings and installations. These artworks, when presented in front of the public eyes, invokes a contradicting feeling. It allows a new method which is not quite comprehensive to be shown and allowed for different interpretations.