Magritte is well known for depicting an uncanny and intriguing world which is believable and recognizable to us. In the Treachery of Images, he challenged people’s perception of the role and definition of texts in art by making it contradicted to the imagery. Certainly, he did not want his audience to associate the word with a certain object. As one of the pioneers in surrealism, René Magritte managed to separate the ordinary objects from their original contexts, and embodied them with completely different new meanings.
So I created a group of surrealist photographs to experiment with the relationship between daily objects and the character in my photograph. Magritte connected certain objects with a certain emotions or state, and that was one of my objectives when I was creating these images. I also experimented with the scale of the objects, since Magritte had altered the scale of the objects to make them less familiar to his audience.
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