Chance Images
Sometimes buildings provide shapes which can be interpreted as "faces". (In Mon oncle the filmmaker Jaques Tati gave a house "rolling eyes" by letting two actors move behind the windows.)There are everyday examples of hidden faces, they are "chance images" including faces in the clouds, figures of the Rorschach Test and the Man in the Moon. Leonardo da Vinci wrote about them in his notebook: "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad valleys, and hills of different shapes. You can also find in them battles and rapidly moving figures, strange faces and costumes, as well as an infinite number of things." Francois and Jean Robert collected and published a lot of photos of "chance faces".
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—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
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