The Treachery of Tickets

Overview

The work reproduces a New York City parking-ticket envelope closely enough to be mistaken for one, with a single change: the face reads, in bold white type, "THIS IS NOT A TICKET." SNVRK distributed it himself in the early hours of June 6, 2026, as the NYC Ticketstorm, leaving it on the windshields of parked cars in Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO and Boerum Hill.^[1]

Influence and intent

The title and the denial printed on the object follow René Magritte's The Treachery of Images (1929), the painting of a pipe captioned "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." SNVRK has described the aim as provoking the reflexive dread of a fine and then undoing it with the text — and, at the scale of a neighborhood, turning streets into a temporary gallery while promoting SNVRKOLEPSY.^[1]

Questions

What does The Treachery of Tickets say?

"THIS IS NOT A TICKET."

What is it based on?

René Magritte's The Treachery of Images (1929), whose pipe is captioned "Ceci n'est pas une pipe."

References

1. SNVRK Wiki on Fandom (self-published by the subject). “The Treachery of Tickets.”