A poem - Pareidolia

[Gary]

Pareidolia

Fat orang-utan, scarf and tie,
Mona Lisa blindfolded – do echoes lie?
Jesus Christ permanently faded,
Colours vibrant, spirits jaded.

Beneath multiple pigments aliens conspire,
Mercenary mediums and techniques for hire.
Illusion in clarity, reality clouded,
Multiple examples of Turin shrouded.

Energies creative within a condensed vibration,
Irrepressible polarities – despair / elation.
Images blended within the observer’s mental palette,
Momentary rapture not constrained by ego or wallet.

Creativity f r e e d or creativity t-e-t-h-e-r-e-d?
Is your Om muted?
Are you conditioning weathered?

Trans – mog – rif – ication,
A tear in the veil – a glimpse of salvation?​

_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia

explains it briefly as "a psychological phenomenon involving a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant, a form of apophenia. Common examples include seeing images of animals or faces in clouds, the man in the moon or the Moon rabbit, and hearing hidden messages on records when played in reverse.

The word comes from the Greek words para (παρά, "beside, alongside, instead") in this context meaning something faulty, wrong, instead of; and the noun eidōlon (εἴδωλον "image, form, shape") the diminutive of eidos. Pareidolia is a type of apophenia, seeing patterns in random data". There are some interesting images there also.

Whilst working at an art college a few years ago, I saw lots of images in a piece of abstract art, while in a light medatative state, and wrote the poem.

 

[HowToBe]

I enjoyed it. :)

Pareidolia is interesting. Almost any noisy surface or shape can become a "Rorschach Test". And I'm sure that some of the time people think they are seeing something real and objective when they are actually seeing their own reflection. I suspect a connection between the images we tend to see in noise and the symbols in dreams.

Trans – mog – rif – ication,
A tear in the veil – a glimpse of salvation?

I'm curious - I read into this "Trans – smog – rift – ication"? The creation of a rift in the smog, which sounds analogous to tearing the veil.

 

[Gary]

Glad you enjoyed it, How to be.

I had fun writing it!

I would tend to agree with your observation about "connection between the images we tend to see in noise and the symbols in dreams". Also a rift in the smog / tear in the veil :)

the "Rorschach Test" is something I have not come across, so will check it out!

 

[HowToBe]

I was using it as another word for "ink blot test", but apparently there is more than one kind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_blot_test

I don't know if such tests are useful. I imagine it depends highly on the person administering them, but the idea is interesting.