ABSTRACT
Contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe offered a modern interpretation of the crossroads-theme with his photograph of forking paths from 1995/2001. The Y-shaped path leads to the top of a hill and ends below the horizon. The landscape and the path shine in shades of brown under a bright blue sky. Amelia Barikin refers to the theory of the simulacrum put forward by philosopher Jean Baudrillard and mentions how Huyghe avoids that antagonistic discourse by directing the attention to the gap between presentation and re-presentation. Ignoring the constraints of a map can lead to a different outcome. Some urbanists now take advantage of people creating their own convenient trails. The photographs are captured in such a way as to avoid a preference of road.
