This chapter introduces mental space theory and the theory of mental space blending. It then introduces the concept of real space and conceptual blends with real space that result from conceptually blending entities in real space with entities within another mental space. In these blends, physical things represent something other than what they are. Examples include the diagram of a soccer field, where lines on a piece of paper represent the soccer field, and the placement of tableware in which a coffee cup depicts a house. From there, the chapter illustrates depictions created by signers in which the extended thumb and fingers of buoys (handshapes with lexically determined forms and meanings) physically embody the depicted entities. Signers not only refer to these embodied depictions by directing indicating signs toward them; they also gaze at them, touch them, gesture toward them, and even manipulate them. These examples demonstrate that both signers and speakers utilize depictions as a normal part of everyday discourse.