pareidolia
Work by Payton Aleah Harris-Woodard and Frank Vega
pareidolia is a visual illusion that tricks the mind into seeing faces where they don’t exist; in a marble countertop, the shadows of leaves, in the clouds. When this occurs, our brain is conveying a sense of personality or meaning where it doesn’t naturally belong. Symbols when implemented by artists exist in the maker’s mind and in the work but the viewer may be blind to them. Either because they aren’t informed by the same visual language, cultural or historical context or because they aren’t willing to acknowledge or see the symbols in the first place. In pareidolia, Payton and Frank examine why interpreting our past is important to understanding our current position and if artists can implement personal symbolism in a way that can be seen and reinterpreted by the viewer…
Frank Vega. Wood Carving “Untitled”
