Pareidolia, a little muse

In the eye of the beholder?

Seeing faces in patterns is a psychological phenomenon called pareidolia:

• Explanation

  Pareidolia is when the brain misinterprets a random stimulus as a pattern or meaning, often leading to the perception of faces in objects.¹

Section of a patchwork quilt, photo by the author

This is a phenomena that has interested me for sometime, as I have always seen patte…