This old powered cleaver is one of the few pieces of industrial machinery left in an abandoned meat-packing plant that were able to photograph. I moved this image from description to expressive industrial geometry by abstracting it, removing its blade and including only its eloquent industrial housing. By taking away the blade of the saw and the room where it hangs, I am removing functional context. Yet at the very same time, I am also adding context by stressing the words inscribed on its facing which restores both function and origins. By converting this image from color to black and white, I am also altering context by changing its form – the image becomes less real, and more symbolic of a time that has passed.