Contest goal:

People often see hidden faces in things. Depending on the circumstances, this is referred to as pareidolia, the perception or recognition of a specific pattern or form in something essentially different. It is thus also a kind of optical illusion. When an artist notices that two different things have a similar appearance, and draws or paints a picture making this similarity evident he makes images with double meanings. Many of these images are hidden faces or hidden skulls, see the wiki page. A famous artist who was quite a master with making hidden faces paintings was surrealist Salvador Dali. He in his way seemed to be fascinated by Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, who was really creative with all kinds of still life objects that all together showed a portrait.

So your goal is the following: make an entry (i.e. a landscape or a still life or even an object), made with objects (from photos) that together show a hidden face (or faces). The hidden face itself does not have to be photorealistic, as long as an expression and/or face features are recognizable. Good luck!


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