Son of Geometry is a digital recreation of The Son of Man painting, painted by RenĂ© Magritte. The original painting is about things that are hidden and how we want to see what is hidden. In this case we want to see the man behind the apple. We see his eyes as a potential clue to who he could be, but we don’t know. I took the concept of hiding a bit further with my recreation, by making the painting geometrical which takes a good amount of detail out of the painting. I took out the man’s eyes, so it is harder to know or guess who he is. I also make it harder to notice that one of the man’s arms is supposedly bent at the elbow, further disguising him. The setting of the recreation is much simpler than that of the original, which takes away the clue of where he could potentially be standing. The man is even more of mystery now, than what he was before.

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