Have you ever witnessed Shadow People ?
Perhaps the tiled floor in
your restroom has come alive with imagery ?
Leonardo da Vinci
claimed (page 62 observation #163) to see new inventions in the
mold-stained walls around him!
Rorschach believed he could glimpse
into the mind via inkblots. As the master of images in patterns
known as
Abstract Extractionism, I can help you access your
sub-conscious via your scribbles.
Scribblism is the art and practice
of the scribble. Would you like your scribble read?
Contact me to
get yours today!
The Underground Tale of the Male in the Shell™
See a peanut, pick it up
And all day long you'll have good luck
At seeing the Secret of the Sages,
That's been preserved throughout the ages.
In the heart of the legume,
This ancient knowledge would resume.
As images in clouds, scribbles and stains,
With imagination, reality will change.
It's the venerable man - with hood and beard,
That sparks a laughter at an idea so weird.
With shells strewn about, there is no time to clean it,
The hunt has begun for Old Man in the Peanut!
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To fully understand my art and my intentions, please read the LA Times article entitled, "Just whose idea is it anyway?" by Marc Porter Zasada
Researching Pareidolia?
This is the place to start:
Remember, Pareidolia was only first used
in 1994.
Collected at the bottom are links to some of the best examples on the internet.
Throughout our history,
mankind has recognized replicas in objects.
During that time,
many creatives have come across the curiosity -
giving it their own twist:
complete with new vocabulary
and the most unique techniques and applications.
Here's mine:
Abstract Extractionism™
An Art Movement!
Abstract Extractionism is the study and practice of
the Recognition of an idea, image, scene or other
abstract in Abstraction and the subsequent Extraction
of it, utilizing the Cavazos Method, in part or in whole.
The Cavazos Method™
1: ABSTRACTION:
Begin with an object that will be used for inspiration (Matrix). This can be
anything abstract OR abstracted.
2: RECOGNITION:
The artist's Recognition can vary from Replica to Abstraction.
3: PRESERVATION:
Depending on the amount of Extraction that will take place, the artist should
Preserve the Matrix before Extracting the Recognition; keeping in mind the
Presentation.
4: EXTRACTION:
From sculpting away, to merely pointing it out, the artist coax's
the suggestion from the Matrix.
5: PRESENTATION:
Exhibition of the Abstract (Matrix) and Extract varies greatly and can be
anything from a simple side-by-side presentation to elaborate viewer
interactivity that reveals the Extraction.
Abstract Extractionism and the Cavazos Method are a Trademark of
Ismael Cavazos.
A key characteristic of the field is that there is no one meta term that
is universally recognized by all to describe and categorize the
phenomenon. Therefore, Abstract Extractionism is also about looking
closely at how past and current creatives dealt/deal with the subject.
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Ismael Cavazos The Secret of the Sages
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5 Flickr Groups:
Lifeless Faces
Facial Impressions
Pareidolia
Anthropomorphism
Abstract Faces
I See Faces
recent addition
Peter Bueschen Winslow Homer: The Obtuse Bard
recent addition
Michael Brenson Art View: The Faces that Haunt Van Gogh's Landscapes
recent addition
J. H. Broshear They Come From The Wood
recent addition
Stone Faces Gazetteer
recent addition
Jeffrey Rigo Shower Jesus
recent addition
Apt 308
recent addition
Adam Stubblefield Inkblots as Passwords
recent addition
Faith Virgin Mary Madonna Mother & Christ Child Miracle Image
recent addition
X-ray of Mallard reveals Alien Head
recent addition
Dr. Guy Worthey Stone Faces
recent addition
Dawn Sorrell Rocknoggins
recent addition
Miloslaw Smyk The Man in the Moon
and other weird things
recent addition
Terry Dodds Cloud Photo
recent addition
Frances Pennline of Charleroi Headless Jesus in Clouds
recent addition
Kevin Short Sky Images
recent addition
David Hargrave Clouds of Consciousness
recent addition
Nefertiti Face (Slide No. 42, Artificial Structures on Mars)
recent addition
Belgrave Hall Museum in Leicester Woman in Victorian Dress
recent addition
World of the Strange Ghosts / Apparitions
recent addition
Fractals as Matrices
Ismael Cavazos Scribblism
Curlin Reed Sullivan Botanical Character Studies
Uwe Kurz Balloon-Painting
Fred Ressler Photography of Shadows
Google Maps A Dragon on a Mexican River
Sharon Elmendorf Generations at Play
Juan Pastrano Jesus in Frying Pan
Rob Nye Extractionist Paintings
Mark D. Phillips Satan in the Smoke
New Hampshire Old Man in the Mt.
Lloyd Stewart Carpenter Great FACE on the Pacific Ocean Floor
Auto Expressions Teeth Grille Inserts
Diana Duyser Grilled Cheese Virgin Mary
Ditto Dalcher Jesus Brick
A customer of Seminole Finance Corp. Virgin Mary
Phil Plait Lenin in Shower Curtain
Ella Huffin Jesus Appears on Base of Tree
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Bob Bernstein The Nunbun
Agate
Suiseki (pr. suh-EE-seck-eh)
Scholars' Rocks
Cypress Knees
Constellations
Tea Leaf Reading
Max Ernst Frottage
Hermann Rorschach Psychological Tests based on Inkblots
Victor Marie Hugo
Justinus Kerner Klecksography
Louis Brassard
H. W. Janson
George Brecht
Alexander Cozens
Leonardo da Vinci
Protogenes
Past attempts at defining Abstract Extractionism:
Most definitions have a bias either towards chance/random or destiny/divinely ordained.
Dali's bias is towards a state of mind. Rob Nye's bias is towards his own work - his definition is limited in it's scope.
First, witness, as a writer freely uses three
of the words listed on this site interchangeably...
Horace Walpole's Serendipity
invented 1754
Cozen's New Method
invented 1785
Carl Jung's Synchronicity
invented 1875 - 1961
Dali's Paranoiac-Critical Method
invented 1930's
Klaus Conrad's Apophenia
invented 1958
Steven Goldstein's Pareidolia
invented 1994
Rob Nye's Extractionism
invented 2000
Wikipedia's Religious Pareidolia
invented 2003-4
Ismael Cavazos' Abstract Extractionism
invented 2005
Aleatoric
Chance Images
Referred to, but missused vocabulary:
Anthropomorphism
Simulacra
Eidetic
Abstract Extraction is the Forefather of the Visual Pun (top left corner), which is the Forefather of Optical Illusions.
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