Thursday, 29 October 2015

Kitchen Kreatures

Sometimes, what is seen is not what it is ....

Pareidolia : "the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees a meaningful object where there is none".

In short "seeing things" . Classic examples being  shapes seen in Cloud formations ,  ink blots , tree trunk knots etc. 

Sometimes, images are suggested by shapes . And then , with some imagination , recognisable forms can be built. 
On a lazy boring day , this : 

"A Gallery of Indian Domestics"

 Having domestic help ( "Servants" ) is considered feudalistic these days and the practice lingers on only in pockets of third wor...