MAGRITTE'S SOJOURN
"Ce n'est pas une maison'...but a microhome. One of my favourite paintings is that of the surrealist Rene Magritte, titled "The Treachery of Immages" (French: Trahison des Images) 1929 but better know to all as "This Is Not a Pipe", ceci n'est pas une pipe. It is a great images is it plays with meta-messages, both connotation and denotation of the pipe as an object and depictions. The letters with meaning beyond their typography.
There is no recount that Magritte ever travelled to Australia but if he had don the trip Down Under and got hold of a caravan, this would be his! Magrittes sojourne alludes to travel and minimal living space. Rene Magritte is one of the key exponents of the surrealist movement firstly initiated in literature by Tristan Tzara and the Dadaist movement initiate at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich, Switzerland.
Magritte's sojourne alludes to a minimum inhabitable space and the shift of day and night. Daytime views trough the caravan windows of Australian vastness On wheels, during the day or during the night, this is a refuge.
If Rene Magritte, had visited Australia and travelled with a caravan following our coastline and across the vast outback. The painting depicts the day and night intersecting, the extreme confined, nearly claustrophobic, space which meets the open outback vastness.
The tree represents genealogy, blood lines and heritage ancestry and a reminder that all come from somewhere.
In the upper right corner it is possible to see the Southern Cross constellation peacefully witnessing our daily existence.
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