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September 18, 2005
My sweet visual illusion
My search for a visual illusion took me all of 3 seconds, thanks to a high speed internet connection, Google Images, and immediately seeing a thumbnail that caught my eye. When I first glanced at the thumbnail of this picture after I Googled "visual illusion" it looked to me like a picture of an old, Albert Einstein-esque man with a crazy beard and wild hair. After I clicked to see the full size image, though, all I could think was whoa, there is a lot going on in this picture. I love the wildness about it. The background of leering, snarling beasts coupled with the flaming windmill as the man's hair envokes in me a sense savagery and inhumanity. Yet...there is a look of sadness in the eyes of the large man and despair upon the faces in the path. Though through all the cruelty and sorrow, I can see the smaller man on the horse has diginity. His face is upturned with an expression of defiance and his posture and he holds his jousting lance with pride, not with fatigue or dejection. I really love the barely noticeable girl in the lefthand corner because it adds a touch of tenderness and feminity to an image primarily of violence and anger. I am definitely bookmarking this site and putting it as my background.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/toddsvballpage/Cognitive/illusion_4.JPG
-Freya
Posted by lcisfreya at September 18, 2005 09:52 PM
Comments
This is Don Quixote de la Mancha...!!Tilting at windmills...
Posted by: Ellen at September 22, 2005 09:02 PM