Well, maybe. I'm always deeply skeptical of the James Elkins argument that we go around looking for - or rather, finding - faces everywhere: a form of anthropomorphizing our surroundings, perhaps; an act of safety (are they looking for me? are they out to get me?) and probably of paranoia (there's another face! It's looking at me!). I've never found that I see faces at all as I'm walking about. On the one hand, perhaps that's good - I don't put any check mark in the paranoia box. On the other - well, maybe it's related to my scarily unreliable abilities when it comes to facial recognition. I didn't see a face in this tree trunk, either - -just some rather fine lichenous spots. But when I looked at the photograph itself - quite definitely a bird face.
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