Day 75 - This is not a cat

The representational use of objects as other than what they seem is typified in Magritte's painting, The Treachery of Images (La trahison des images), which shows a pipe that looks as though it is a model for a tobacco store advertisement. Magritte painted below the pipe ;This is not a pipe; (Ceci n'est pas une pipe), which seems a contradiction, but is actually true: the painting is not a pipe, it is an image of a pipe. It does not satisfy emotionally – when Magritte once was asked about this image, he replied that of course it was not a pipe, just try to fill it with tobacco.

Day 29 - I love toys!

You may as well know this now - I love toys! I never grew out of them, and I loved having kids because it gave me an excuse to keep buying them. This cycling duck cracks me up. He cycles around and the bits on top of his hat whizz around. As you can see, some of them are sadly missing.