Ten paintings which focus on the psychological-visual phenomenon of pareidolias. This is the perceived illusion that a visual stimulus is conveying a visage – when we think we see a face in an otherwise inert object (a common example is “the man on the moon”, or to see a face in a tree’s bark). I see this effect as core to visual representation and inherent to human nature. An infant learns to understand the face of its parent as the first obstacle for acquiring vision. An artist works to convey convincing likenesses and creative illusions. There is a fine line between abstraction and representation. When we perceive a pareidolia we are standing on that threshold.
