THOMAS ELDER

René Magritte painted his iconic pipe and aptly labeled the painting to express truth and purposeful perplexity; The Treachery of Images: This is not a Pipe, (translated into English.) Do computer-generated images, CGI, propose another truth? Or, do they simply represent an image based on familiarity of experience; like another painting? The uncanniness is surreally real... Using the original Magritte (not a) pipe as a reference, I created a Computer Generated, CG image of the experience, printed on primed canvas with outdoor quality archival ink to within an inch of the actual size of Magritte's painting. I call it a proxigraph an invented word to describe something that looks photographic but stands in proxy for a photographic object. The pipe image was created in 3D software. The type was recreated by pen and digital scan to allow for the high-resolution lighting and purposeful (CG) studio light shadows... What does the viewer really look at? Now that IKEA can represent nearly all..