{"id":2256,"date":"2025-11-15T16:58:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:22:56","slug":"the-face-frowning-on-the-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-face-frowning-on-the-sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"The face frowning on the sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an enjoyable day in New York City, exploring different art gallery shows in Chelsea and finding inspiration from a number of artists. As I was walking from gallery to gallery, at one point I noticed this face on the sidewalk looking at me with a frown.<\/p>\n<p>Do you see a face in the wet spot pictured above? I didn\u2019t add, remove, or move any elements in this wet spot, I photographed it just as I saw it. I know I tend to have a knack for experiencing <a href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/tag\/pareidolia\/\" title=\"Pareidolia\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pareidolia<\/a>, and here I am again. If you don\u2019t see it, I\u2019ll show a close-up with a straight photo (below left), and a quick doodle to highlight the eyes, nose, and frowning mouth that I saw as I was walking by. Now do you see it? Or am I just nuts? (I can answer that)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2631\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/face-seen-on-NYC-sidewalk-1.jpg\" alt=\"a wet spot on the sidewalk looks like a face, a case of pareidolia\" width=\"850\" height=\"560\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/face-seen-on-NYC-sidewalk-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/face-seen-on-NYC-sidewalk-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/face-seen-on-NYC-sidewalk-1-768x506.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The face I saw in the wet spot on a NYC sidewalk.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an enjoyable day in New York City, exploring different art gallery shows in Chelsea and finding inspiration from a number of artists. As I was walking from gallery to gallery, at one point I noticed this face on the sidewalk looking at me with a frown. Do you see a face in the &#8230; <a title=\"The face frowning on the sidewalk\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-face-frowning-on-the-sidewalk\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The face frowning on the sidewalk\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,48],"tags":[551,579,681],"class_list":["post-2256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-found-art","category-street-photography","tag-nyc","tag-pareidolia","tag-sidewalk-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2633,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}