Vision

Imagination is a strong tool and it is hard to keep it sharp as we grow older. As we grow up life we don't always get to discover things for ourselves but instead things start to become defined for us. This starts to take away our imagination and how we look at things. Stan Brakage wrote "One can never go back- not even in imagination". As artist we have to look past these definitions in life and look at it new ways and its not an easy thing to do.
While reading this I thought of a famous piece most of us have encountered some time in our life by Rene Magritte -The Treachery of Images. If you don't recognize the title you may know it has this is not a pipe. Surrealism paintings are good examples of looking at everyday life and objects differently. In this surrealist piece you see a pipe but its not really a pipe if you really think about it but a painting. A pipe is something you can hold to your mouth and smoke out of but this painting you can not do that so technically it is not a pipe. If the artist did not write underneath this pieces that this is not a pipe most people would look at this and define it as a pipe because that is what they were taught but that does not mean that is correct.