this is not a pipe

Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was the one to propose the idea of meaningful coincidences, or synchronicity (NOT the police album!). I'm sure this exists much like the feeling of déjà vu, but personally I've never been able to pinpoint when these occurrences take place. More than anything I would love to experience synaesthesia: blurring of the senses. One could hear colors, see sounds, taste feelings. I'm digressing. What I was trying to get at is the importance of repeated themes or images. When an artist has a number of paintings that may or may not be a part of a series, what is it that they're trying to examine? Are these reoccurring visual patterns more significant than we think they are?

French Surrealist Rene Magritte has a tendency to do this, not to say that it hasn't happened before. Fellow contemporary, Salvador Dali, does this as well. Each painter's work is equally as powerful, I just like to point out Magritte because his repetitiveness is more apparent where Dali makes you work for it. I feel you're closer to understanding a piece in its entirety with Rene.



check out the son of man, le pretre marié, and the listening room. there are apples in all of these, but he's got recurring bird shapes, sky patterns, eyes, etc. my favorite series is the lovers.

what are we trying to get at anyways? the impurity of the human condition? the idea that we're all the same on the inside, corrupted by our outside world? or is it simply nothing?

the truth of the matter is that no one will ever be sure of an artist's goals but the artist, and so we move on.