An Absorbed nation

My concept behind this word is that during the celtic tiger, people became obsessed with money and material objects. Caught up in our apperance both apperance and lifstyle.
Now people have become obsessed with the recession. A nation of self absorbed beings!!

The stages or steps cut out of the original full form A are to convey the sense of absorbion, the letter is soaked up. The Mirror is placed in the middle to give the self centered aspect, anyone who is standing infront will inevitably see themselves looking back.