I could say that the spoon is standing up in it, but I can't see the spoon. I think it's dissolved.
Madness string 3013
The object you see, that is the shadow. The shadow on the ground is the thing itself. But this isn't a matter of light and shadow, but of object and reflection, of object and abstraction. The object is the real, that is our perception, is it not? Is this correct? Why wouldn't the shadow be just as real?