Seeing faces and mistakes
Dear Sarah/Dear Nikki - Day 470 of our daily art adventure
Hi Sarah -
Today, after a meeting, I stopped in to drop some things off at the local thrift store and, while I was in there cruised through the stationery stuff and found an unopened box of transparency sheets. Back in the days before PowerPoint (remember when?), they would have been used for presentations using those awful overhead projectors that shook and wobbled and, when moving the ‘slides’ around, one would invariably move them in the opposite direction to the one intended.
Dad used them for projecting drawings onto larger canvases (or, walls, if he was working on a big mural). I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with these sheets, but when I got home and flipped through recent photos I remembered taking a photo of an aspen tree trunk.
I always see faces in the bark patterns (pareidolia is the official name of the tendency to see faces in random patterns). And all that made me decide to overlay the bark on imagery in the next page of my handmade paper book (mentioned yesterday - thank you, Zoe!!).
The effect is kind of cool, almost like she is under water… I can see I might use this technique again. I have a whole package of transparency sheets to get through…
That’s it for now -
Nikki
Hi Nikki,
So far I have had no luck with thrift stores as a source of art paraphernalia. I do remember the PowerPoint presentations of yesteryear. I associate them with team-building workshops I was forced to go to when I worked at UVic. Shudder.
Someday I’d like to watch you make one of your collages. Your process is a mystery to me, but the results are always intriguing. I see what you mean about finding faces in the tree bark. I certainly see a pair of vertical eyes in the top right corner!
As you may have heard, Mother’s Day is almost upon us, which means card-making was in order. Not very exciting, I admit, but still more meaningful than store-bought. And my lettering still sucks. Should have put it on the back! Also, I hate it when pulling off the tape wrecks the paper. I guess I should always apply heat before removing the tape. I am resisting the temptation to re-do the cards, but now that I see it up close on the screen, it really looks bad. Damn.
XO S
