Of the many forms of ironies, the most sophisticated is Socratic Irony which is a means by which the pretended ignorance of a skilful questioner leads the person answering to expose his own ignorance. A more common form relates to the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. An example in this guise would go as follows: “The irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.” The type employed in this series of photographs is predicated upon their incongruity, the least intellectual incarnation of its use. In this sense it bears more the qualities of paradox than that of mordancy.

All of these photographs bear the hallways of the latter variant.