The Choke of Man
My sincerest apologies to René Magritte. We put the “art” back into “artichoke”.
About his own painting, he wrote:
“At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the [artichoke], hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It’s something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.”
Model: Christopher Lantz
Photography + Food Styling: Libby Bulloff
Hair + Makeup: Lindsey Watkins
Artichoke from Chris’ kitchen. It returned there post-shoot, where we ate it.
Shot at Starfish Studios, Seattle, WA, April 2009.
[I am especially pleased at how spot-on we got the framing of this parody. One can see the edge of the left eye in the original painting, too.]
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Our food pornography photo show is tomorrow night! I’ll be posting little teasers all week. Hope to see you there!
