I was photographing this car standing in front of a white picket fence, concentrating on its incongruous protective cover. It hides the car’s detail to make it seem mysterious. As I worked on this image, a woman entered my frame, wearing a blue beach robe and pressing a phone to her head. I caught her just as she neared the shrouded car. Her hair obscures her identity, abstracting her just as the shroud stretched over the car hides its details from us. The slats of the white picket fence in the background rhythmically combine to link both subjects. Together, the dual abstractions create an image expressing the nature of anonymity in our society.