Planetary Consciousness.

January 25, 2005 11:06 AM

The Human Connection Institute. With a friend, gaze at a painting. Point out what one of you perceives until the other can see it too. Take turns doing this, exploring if you begin to feel greater empathy or even the beginnings of telepathy. Are you more heartfelt and insightful together than you are alone? The art gallery of the Human Connection Project.
posted by tidecat (18 comments total)

Can we pick one and attempt a connection in this thread, or would that just be silly?
posted by 31d1 at 11:21 AM on January 25, 2005

Art gallery: top row, third from left. A lonely, levitating, red ram.
posted by tidecat at 11:36 AM on January 25, 2005

...with an ear on its back. It's face reminds me of a cyclops-tolkien-dwarf.
posted by 31d1 at 11:40 AM on January 25, 2005

origami goldfish.
posted by taz at 11:41 AM on January 25, 2005

With a severed foot underneath.
posted by taz at 11:42 AM on January 25, 2005

I'm missing the severed foot, but an nose/upper lip is coming through clear in the upper right hand corner.
posted by tidecat at 11:47 AM on January 25, 2005

ooh! I see that. The foot is laying horizontally, with the toes section below the tail of the goldfish/head of the ram.
posted by taz at 11:50 AM on January 25, 2005

I also see a small dark statue-like bust in profile in the center top, flanked by two lighter-colored ovoids.
posted by taz at 11:53 AM on January 25, 2005

Got the foot, and the headless torso with wings. Lots of sensory devices and opportunities for expression, but in isolation from one another.
posted by tidecat at 11:57 AM on January 25, 2005

Headless torso with wings is just above the toes of the foot, on the chest of the ram?

Here's something else: look at the nose/lip section: see this as the chest and arm of a reclining child. The head, tilted slightly towards us, with brown hair and eyes open, is just to the left of that.
posted by taz at 12:04 PM on January 25, 2005

i see baby jesus, bottom left corner, lying horizontally underneath the severed foot wearing sunglasses and snuggling warmly under a blanket

(sunglasses are exactly in the bottom middle)
posted by reflection at 12:34 PM on January 25, 2005

I'm having a hard time seeing that, reflection; are the sunglasses the two dark blobs at the bottom, slightly to the right? (I did find a breast, by the way.)
posted by taz at 12:45 PM on January 25, 2005

Stop making sense.
Folded warmth inside cold, lovelost rain.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 12:50 PM on January 25, 2005

I still don't see the sunglasses, but definitely pick up on lovelost rain. And sweet buttered toast, but I can't get enough.
posted by tidecat at 12:57 PM on January 25, 2005

This is very clearly my dog. But why she is running around with the bedspread from my high school years draped over her, I don't know.
posted by Secret Life of Gravy at 3:39 PM on January 25, 2005

It worked! I know what you're all thinking now. And no, I am not a loser.
posted by pmbuko at 3:52 PM on January 25, 2005

a horse with no legs. Well, there are legs, but they seem kinda dismbodies.

oh, and it is folded warmth. I think the horse is bleeding at sunset.
posted by wah at 3:55 PM on January 25, 2005

Yeah, the internet, it's all about human connection.
posted by nanojath at 7:31 PM on February 24, 2005