If his abstractions are «about» anything, they are about resuscitating a pragmatic concept of holistic experience and modifying that naturalistic idea to meet the needs of a dedicated contemporary art practice in which emotion and contingency interact with larger structures of personality, and
philosophical problems interact with real production.
What we discover in Lewis Ford, in addition, is a mind that approaches
philosophical problems in a manner quite analogous to the way that he himself depicts God (following Pannenberg) as
interacting with and complementing the world the power of the future, operant in the present, effecting a slow but certain transformation and redemption of the past.