{"id":3384,"date":"2018-10-26T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T15:51:43","slug":"revealing-the-hidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"revealing the hidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out effective and efficient means to parse some of my more &#8230;erm&#8230; complicated images, to reveal what <i>I<\/i> see hidden in them. If I had the chops to be able to reproduce what I see as drawings, cartoons, or even tracings, I would spend many happy hours rendering photographic captures into hand-drawn graphics. While I can imagine what such translations would look like, I certainly haven&#8217;t the powers or skills to realize my imaginings. Yesterday it occurred to me that the combination of details clipped out and narrative might be effective enough to begin with. Here&#8217;s the starting point for today&#8217;s exercise:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/31607513378\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x18087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1940\/31607513378_bb00fd7729_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"469\" alt=\"20x18087\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nWhat it <i>is<\/i> : a stretch of highly-figured Drift Inn rock, 5 or 6 feet wide, with tidewater pooled in hollows (the white-flecked areas). <\/p>\n<p>\nOn the left I see a crowned bird-headed Hieronymus Boschish figure in a speckled robe, looking to the left over its right shoulder:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/45565998721\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1887details1b\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1936\/45565998721_4a4d2ba64a_z.jpg\" width=\"393\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20x1887details1b\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nBelow that is a long-toothed and perhaps cat-like nightmare figure, reminiscent of Ralph Steadman&#8217;s graphic style:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/30624890307\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1887details3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1946\/30624890307_2d02eced56_z.jpg\" width=\"547\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20x1887details3\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nand to the right of those is a flame-haired human figure, arms raised and possibly with Harry Potter glasses or maybe just preternaturally googly eyes:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44841025204\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1887details2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1980\/44841025204_b398343356_z.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20x1887details2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nand on the far right edge, a long-snouted foxy-horsey creature, with what might be a single horn on its head:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44651919135\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1887details4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1957\/44651919135_8a3684c5df_z.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20x1887details4\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center>.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou may see none of these, or find other figures that I haven&#8217;t yet discerned. There&#8217;s another shot of most of the same scene, from the other side, which offers a whole different array of interpretative challenges:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44567795595\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x18086\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1950\/44567795595_342302c2a2_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" alt=\"20x18086\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nFor the moment, I&#8217;ll just point out the insouciant but demented (and possibly fanged) flying squirrel in the upper left:<center><br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/blackmerh\/44652336585\/in\/dateposted-family\/\" title=\"20x1886detail1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1936\/44652336585_80f141cfec_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" alt=\"20x1886detail1\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out effective and efficient means to parse some of my more &#8230;erm&#8230; complicated images, to reveal what I see hidden in them. If I had the chops to be able to reproduce what I see as drawings, cartoons, or even tracings, I would spend many happy hours rendering photographic captures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3387,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}