WHY THE BOWLER HAT

After seeing the ending scene in Thomas Crown Affair, the fascination with the painting "Son of Man" began. The ideas and meanings of the painting mimic many ideas in life. Always trying to see what is around the corner and trying to achieve things that may not yet be visible.

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"The Son of Man" (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky.

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"...You have the apparent face, the apple, 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." - René Magritte

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As an artist there are many times one becomes the faceless man or woman. Having the project be the one speaking. It is the artist's job to create something that is strong enough to speak for it self, no names or labeling is necessary when this is achieved.

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Each project drives the next to become better. We will always strive to see what is beyond.