Andrew Hazewinkel

This image was created as a queer response to two of four small paintings created by René Magritte in 1928 titled Les Amants (The Lovers). In a 1965 radio interview about his works Magritte said “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.”

^{René Magritte radio interview with Jean Neyens, cited in Torczyner, Harry, Magritte: Ideas and Images, trans. Richard Millen (New York: Harry N. Abrams)}