In a departure of sorts from his stylistic and aesthetic practice, Stephen Hart took a leap in 2010, venturing into the abstract. In "Something Like This", an exhibition at Jan Manton Art, Hart reconfigured the figurative sculpture for which he is best known, developing, instead, a series that abstract the human figure - tiny segments of colored timber, jammed together like the compressed contents of an electrical cable.

These were rendered as small elements among a larger landscape of ...