I’ve never used this pipe – it was bought as a souvenir in Cambodia and is for smoking opium. It has a porcelain bowl and brass spout. As soon as I’d finished I thought of Magritte’s famous painting “The treachery of images” which is also called “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (this is not a pipe). His reasoning was that he’d be lying if he said it was a pipe – because it’s only a representation of a pipe. So I’m kind of lying with my title!

Sun-30-Sep-2018