Coffeet
January 21st, 2009
"Coffeet" from the 2008 Elite Men's BG Triathlon in Vancouver.
…while optical confusion makes photographs more interesting as art, it also reflects something fundamental in human experience. Because we become expert at making sense of visual situations early in life, we may assume that encounters with things we can’t readily assimilate are fairly rare.
But if you think about it, there is almost always a gap in time — however infinitesimal it may seem — between seeing and comprehending. That moment just before we file a perception away into a conventional category, when our senses and minds are fully alert to what lies before us — that is the sweet spot of art.
via New York Times, “In Photography, What Puzzles the Eye May Please the Mind
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Hmmm, looks like two more Vancouver ‘mystery feet in shoes’ have been found!
Haha! It feels wrong to laugh but that hadn’t occurred to me.