And what's with the Pipes? Mirror Making of Sixteen Pipes: Mending Magritte’s Mistake (Ltd. Ed. of 1)

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And what’s with the pipes?
Magritte was wrong. Even now, it’s still a pipe. It always was. Every single one of them.
I count sixteen.
Magritte’s famous assertion, “This is not a pipe,” was based on a wrong assumption about the nature of existence. He did not have access to the latest studies on consciousness and the power of visualization. The conceptual mistake was made from the start. This work reveals that.

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In the age of code, prompts, and machines, we risk making the same mistake. We risk believing that the tool replaces the author. That the process erases intention. But more importantly, we can still find intention in the black box. Just as we once found it in breath, in ink, in silence, or in dust. The tools changed. The meaning did not.

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And what's with the Pipes? Mirror Making of Sixteen Pipes applies The Age of Beauty: A Manifesto and the visual framework introduced in Mirror Making of a Manifesto to correct one of modern art’s most iconic provocations by Magritte.

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Have a look behind the scenes, where and when I realized Magritte's mistake, here.
 
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This is a one-of-a-kind print. There will be no reprints. No second edition. The original is the copy. The copy is the mirror. 

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Each tile is a door. Or perhaps a mirror. It is not a linear process.
Begin wherever you are: 

A. Breath & Consciousness
 B. Trace & Dust
  C. Ink & Papyrus
   D. Print & Press
    E. Code & Screen
     F. Prompt & Machine
     G. Light & Mirror
      H. Silence & Origin
      H′. Origin & Silence
     G′. Mirror & Light
     F′. Machine & Prompt
    E′. Screen & Code
   D′. Press & Print
  C′. Papyrus & Ink
 B′. Dust & Trace
A′. Consciousness & Breath


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Museum-quality posters made on thick matte paper.

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This print is part of a limited and numbered edition of 1
and comes with a
DIGITAL CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
provided by Verisart.
SIGNED.

Comes with a Collector Dossier, including:

• The original manifesto (handwritten)
• Artist statement and story

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• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 189 g/m²
• Opacity: 94%
• ISO brightness: 104%
• Size: 18″ × 24″ (approx. 46 × 61 cm)

Age restrictions: For adults
EU Warranty: 2 years
Other compliance information: Meets the small parts and magnetic flux index level requirements.

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