This Isn’t A Mobile

November 21, birthday of Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte (1898–1967). His work frequently displays ordinary objects in an unusual context, giving new meanings to familiar things. With the witty and thought-provoking images he intended to challenge the observers' preconditioned ideas of reality. One of the Magritte’s most known paintings ‘This is not a pipe’, which seems a contradiction, is actually true: the painting isn’t a pipe, it’s an image of a pipe. The picture above isn’t a Magritte, it reminds of him, but it’s a homage, a ‘hello’ to this man, who could have used a mobile this way, if around today. Today is also the World Hello Day, started in 1973, with the aim to ease the tensions and make this world a bit less explosive by saying hello to 10 people a day. I hope to say hello many times today: I’m moving, therefor very mobile... and tensions are all around. So are the removal boxes...’hello’ boxes... what on earth are you all doing down there? (deep sigh). Image by Photobucket/germandemat