Title: Re: fossils on Mars
thomas malloy wrote:
I heard this man interviewed on C to C AM. Click on the fossils link. I
wonder if this is an example of seeing what you want to see,
http://xenotechresearch.com/cgi/wp/index.php?cat=3
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Probably.
The 20th century artist Max Ernst uses the power of seeing what you
want to see in his art.
Max Ernst: ...in my personal development this method, which is
based on nothing less than the intensification of the excitability of the
mental faculties and which, in view of this technique, I should like to call
frottage, perhaps played a greater role than collage, from which I truthfully
believe it does not differ fundamentally. Starting with a childhood memory
in which a panel of imitation mahogany opposite my bed had played the role
of optical stimulant of a vision I had while half asleep, and finding
myself, on a rainy day in a hotel at the seashore (Pornic, August 1925), I
was struck by the obsession exerted on my gaze by the panel, whose grooves
had been deepened by a thousand washings. I then decided to examine the
symbolism of this obsession...I made a series of drawings from the pieces of
wood by haphazardly placing sheets of paper on them, which I undertook to
rub [frotter in French] with black lead pencil. I emphasise the fact that the drawings
obtained in this manner increasingly lost...the character of the material
tested [the wood] and acquired the appearance of images of an undreamed-of
precision which was probably of such a nature as to reveal the primary cause
of the obsession or to produce a semblance of that cause. With wideawake,
wonder-struck curiousity, I tested all kinds of materials...leaves and
theirs veins, the frayed edges of sacking, the knife strokes of a modern
painting. a thread unrolled from a bobbin, and so on...I assembled the
first results obtained under the title Histoire Naturelle.
Harry
