Showing posts with label Seeing Things. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seeing Things. Show all posts

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...