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Sights Unseen takes mundane sights in the visible world and coaxes them into revealing hidden aspects or odd relations. Unexpected framing and decisive editing sometimes force meanings that are not obvious but can be made manifest with a little creative license. The Images The photographs collected here were shot in the course of half a lifetime, a few even dating to the time of slide film (which I preferred to color negative because film development immediately gave you a po

Attributing human characteristics or emotions to inanimate and natural objects is an old rhetorical and poetic device. Since the Romantics overused it, it has been somehwat deprecated (in the coding sense of being abandoned as obsolete). Still, the temptation is hard to resist considering how good our brain is at recognizing patterns, especially when it comes to faces. I came across The Mask of Determination in a park, somewhere in Rome. All it is, is the trunk of a palm tre