Pipe Stories

The pipe was a bone of contention during my father’s illness.  It was not helping his pneumonia and was a huge cause of concern, but its attempted removal caused much upset.  It was only later, looking through the family photographs that it became evident that this pipe is so much a part of my father’s life how important and integral the pipe is to him.  This piece takes the classic form of the pipe as epitomised in Rene Magritte’s ‘ceci n’est pas une pipe’ but with etched images of my father, over 50 years, with his pipe.