DEER CONSTELLATION depicts the ebb and flow of the river, forming into the shape of a deer’s profile. Within seconds this pareidolia was washed away—an image caught at the surface and gone the instant the current shifts. There’s a double gesture here: the slow architecture of water arranging itself into something almost-recognizable, then the quick disillusion when the pattern collapses back into current. That momentary deer is both creation and disappearance, a small, accidental myth assembled by physics and perception.
Pareidolia is less a trick of the eye than a conversation between mind and matter. The pleasure is in seeing—if only for a moment—that the world can answer back with something that looks familiar.
The fleeting image teaches patience and attention—look longer, and new shapes will form; look gently, and you’ll keep the memory of the deer even after it has been washed away.
DEER CONSTELLATION depicts the ebb and flow of the river, forming into the shape of a deer’s profile. Within seconds this pareidolia was washed away—an image caught at the surface and gone the instant the current shifts. There’s a double gesture here: the slow architecture of water arranging itself into something almost-recognizable, then the quick disillusion when the pattern collapses back into current. That momentary deer is both creation and disappearance, a small, accidental myth assembled by physics and perception.
Pareidolia is less a trick of the eye than a conversation between mind and matter. The pleasure is in seeing—if only for a moment—that the world can answer back with something that looks familiar.
The fleeting image teaches patience and attention—look longer, and new shapes will form; look gently, and you’ll keep the memory of the deer even after it has been washed away.
