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More than one astonishing faces with gritted teeth appeared on roofs in Brugge, Belgium.
Eyes are captured by the signature steel anchors.
Brugge
A cynical face on a river bank found in Szendendre, Hungary.
Szendendre
1. A brioche bread 🍞 with a bun served by Gerbeaud Confectionery found in Budapest, Hungary
Budapest
The locking system on Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) trains (one model) makes a cute twin face.
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Netherlands
Lego man's grimacing faces deliberately merged onto the manhole covers in the Netherlands
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Netherlands
The sign for bike lane in Seville,Spain.
From a different angle, it totally resembles a confused expression.
Seville
Face Hunting Filter
We have proudly evolved to have this ability to rapidly recognise faces on objects, which was beneficial for identifying similar races and surviving from an unfamiliar environment. As a consequence, we have a tendency to recognise non-human objects with expressional and emotional faces. Whether on purpose or accidental, where there are humans, there is imagination.
The wittily face recognition is called “Pareidolia”.
Interestingly, I am not too attached to the photos I’ve captured from the past travels (perhaps due to the massive quantity), but I would always sort the photos containing “pareidolia” into a special album, and they were remembered well. During the isolation work from home time, the lack of human contact triggered our “craving” for more faces. So I started to curate the pareidolia face photos, and returned them on to the locations, composing a map about my incorrect recognition yet with a human touch.
Comparing to Places of Interest, perhaps finding Faces of Interest weirdly stimulate more joy. If you spot the faces as well, such as the lego-like sewer cap, or a nanny-like brioche bun found in a century-old cafe, why not sending the customised stamps to the friends you have in mind.
This is a slowly-growing face-daydreaming map. Imagine when the data points are dense enough, the map might echo the diagram of human activity. Where there are humans, there must be imagination.