Renee Magritte's “Treachery of Images” highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a painting of a pipe is not a pipe. The absence of tangibility is a divisive barrier between what is and what is reference of.
DefeXtiles explores the gray area when the “reference of” becomes tangible.
If something looks, moves, and feels like fabric, does that make it fabric? What is the barrier of fidelity for acceptance, and is that barrier universal or personal?
Renee Magritte's “Treachery of Images” highlighted the fallacy in which images and words are prescribed meaning. It is obvious that a painting of a pipe is not a pipe. The absence of tangibility is a divisive barrier between what is and what is reference of.
DefeXtiles explores the gray area when the “reference of” becomes tangible.
If something looks, moves, and feels like fabric, does that make it fabric? What is the barrier of fidelity for acceptance, and is that barrier universal or personal?