Showing posts with label symbolic reasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symbolic reasoning. Show all posts

Saturday, June 12, 2010

This Is Not an Image of Muhammad

Expecting to see an image of Muhammad? Sorry.

In the shower I was thinking about the Muslim prohibition of depictions of Muhammad and was wondering how you draw someone we don't have especially accurate pictures of already. That really means it's more about the label than the image itself. That further got me thinking of Magritte's famous "This is not a pipe" picture. I wonder if a similarly themed "This is not an image of Muhammad" title would get you off the hook?