These abstract objects

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. ~ Lucian Freud

Meanwhile Baudrillard has this to say: 
 
The technological plane is an abstraction: in ordinary life we are practically unconscious of the technological reality of objects. Yet this abstraction is profoundly real: it is what governs all radical transformations of our environment. It is even--and I do not mean this in any paradoxical sense--the most concrete aspect of an object, for technological development is synonymous with objective structural evolution.

from The System of Objects