CRIME [fr. crime]

Pictures state things.
An image (or a visual representation) is a proposition of a matter of fact, but not the matter itself.
This means—what we all know—that visual representations can lie.
Or that they—as images—are lies in themselves.
This is the same old Platonic controversy.
But more importantly, visual representations, as the events they are, produce new events.
Visual representations are functions which produce events.
An artist is not primarily interested in murder, burglary, rape, violations of copyright law, tax defraud or traffic offences, but rather in crimes which legally may not be recognised as such, in invisible crimes, which the emergency artist identifies and represent as such.
The artist is thus an investigator of unseen crime scenes which are made visible for the public in a represented crime scene.
This representation of the crime scene is the Emergency Room:
CRIME SCENE. DO PASS.