This image is a play on surrealist painter René Magritte's 1929 La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images).The painting is of a smoking pipe with the words, ceci n'est pas une pipe (this is not a pipe) written below. Magritte wrote of the image: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!"
For me, this image is an invocation to the study of infrastructure, both in the materiality of the built environment and in terms of affect, expertise, and memory.
This image is a play on surrealist painter René Magritte's 1929 La Trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). The painting is of a smoking pipe with the words, ceci n'est pas une pipe (this is not a pipe) written below. Magritte wrote of the image: "The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture 'This is a pipe', I'd have been lying!"
For me, this image is an invocation to the study of infrastructure, both in the materiality of the built environment and in terms of affect, expertise, and memory.