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Friday, January 3, 2014


Welcome to the short version of my wordpress post.
And be happy because it is shorter and therefore more to the point.
Remember Magritte?
He made the above picture and it was referred to as: the treachery of pictures.
What seems to have been his aim is to point out that the picture of a pipe is not a pipe. It does not have the real life properties of a real life pipe.
At some point he describes something along these lines: see this pipe.. you can not stuff it, light it and smoke it..
But the question is this: he did.. he just described something that was not real.. he stuffed, lit and smoked a pipe.
In fact we do that a lot of times these days. I bet you might go and see a movie.. a movie like the nobbit: the desolation of smaug. You see a hobbit, you see elves and you see dwarves.. all make believe in one way.. Yet anything you can imagine you can have them do...

But that is not the point of my post. It is just a bit of irony.
My post was more about this,

My attempt is to show you something without showing it. Like the pipe is a picture.. but it is a common idea. Something we accept when we are confonted by a pipe.. a real one of one that is only a picture.
But even more... the one picture leads to the next.. and without the image.. i can have you see the pipe even when it is not there.
It that what intrigues me. Here is the flow chart.


In a very drilled down version I could show you this and you will still see a think of a pipe.


Is not that fascinating?.. no?.. oh well.

http://meritcoba.com/2013/11/28/ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe-or-what-is-not-there-or-is-in-hindsight/

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