In this project I hoped to find a playfulness or whimsy that is known to and often left behind in childhood. I focused on Pareidolia, or the phenomenon of finding faces in objects. Usually this would be eyes and a mouth, but in the case of this project the mouth could be substituted for a nose of a tucked in creature or the like. My goal was to reconnect to my inner child; the same inner child many can resonate with in the act of making shapes or animals from clouds.

In this project I focused on the man made and mechanical, as I didn't want to be too broad in my explorations. (Although, I could do nature or architecture parts as well. The nature-esc was not the goal nor was the architecture.) I wanted to personify the man-made, objects that we may tell to "Stay right there! Don't move!" or have other exclamations about.

When I saw a "face" I would stop to take a picture, whether I had my Canon R7 with me or not. My phone camera took many of these, seeing as some were in stores or were in a personal space such as a bathroom (Usually for the locks of the stalls or the hooks on the back of the doors) and would not have been appropriate to bring an actual camera into. The film quality images staged with more dramatic and nicer lighting were usually ones that I had spotted and had time to come back to; such as the car photos towards the end of the series and anything I was able to take while traveling.

I consider this to be a body of work that belongs together rather than individual images. It will remain a full digital gallery rather than come to print