Asian Man in the Rock

So do you see it? Do you see the face in the stone?

Usually when I hike, I look down making sure I step on solid ground. Once in a while I look up to enjoy the scenery – I mean after all, I am going to enjoy nature. Well, I looked up one day to find something looking back at me.

I see faces - in lots of things. No, I didn’t say “dead people”… I said - faces.

A close friend once told me... "Maybe you shouldn't say that so loud". I just smiled thinking "Come on - it is obvious that there are faces in all sorts of things around us." I have subsequently learned - after having spoken to many and having conducted a very unofficial survey - that many do NOT see faces. Okay, perhaps my mind now trained to look for them...I pick them out of cloth patterns and fronts of automobiles and much more. The ones that interest me at this time, are the nature made ones. Like this 'etching in stone' I posted today.

So, that you do not think that I am not only naïve – but also nuts, I am truly NOT the only one that has these ‘visions’. As a birthday gift, I received "Faces" by Francois and Jean Robert. It is a small art photography book with faces found in all sort of wonderful objects, from a mop to an Ann Taylor bag. It is sometimes delightful to not only see the face - but also the expression in it. Furthermore, did you know that as humans we are genetically programmed to recognize the facial patterns? So that as infants, we can begin to recognize our care takers. Anyhow, of course these are all justifications for the simple truth that 'I see faces' and spend time looking for them and photographing them.

More to come!!!