In this painting Magritte takes the idea that ALL space still exists even when WE are not there; and he shoves it right in our face! He does something that not a lot of artists have done in Fine ART by almost creating a (delicately hand painted) comic strip. And then he takes it even further by having the majority of the scenes looking EXACTLY THE SAME (nothing is happening in them). This forces us to go “Wtf am I meant to be looking at! There is fuck all happening.” But then it hits you. You think that because the man was in the first scene, something else relating to him must happen in the next - but it doesn’t. We don’t follow him. We stay still and he leaves. Magritte uses this confusion to make us see that when we leave a specific space - the space stays, and we go. He makes us think about something that wouldn’t usually think about; which is that there is a world outside that which we experience. Showing us that something is happening everywhere at all times, whether we are there or not. Which is interesting to think about. The idea stuck him that the world never sits still -but it’s constantly moving, and we as living beings are just a part in that movement.