Raat examines the pretense of absoluteness. According to Mondriaan, abstraction would express a general evolution of society in which the primitive and the figurative have become obsolete and a higher stage of consciousness is reached, which finds its precise expression in Mondriaan's art. Raat explains: 'Then I think: What would be left of the belief in its language of form as an expression of human evolution, if I tilt the painting?' [Ton de Muck, 2008 in MUMU catalogue, 2009