Ross G Caldwell
Michael finally "saw" it as well, and made an image with the monkey upright -
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I think Michael's remarks about the "compositional" features are spot on. The overall balance of the face-turban makes it IMO an inescapable interpretation. As for the "details", I do think that the angle of the face looks better as the designer made it than in the "upright" posture, but this is to be expected as that is how he worked.
Frankly, I'm blown away by this discovery. All these years of a BLOB on the back of the Cary Sheet Magician, and now we have a real live monkey.
(BTW, the reason Michael isn't here for himself is because he's lost his code or his screen name, and can't sign in).
Ross
He writes
Now that I see it, I suspect that others are probably seeing the same face that you are. It's *much* better than the one I saw -- both in terms of features (which are always suspect in such a degraded image) and composition, the arrangement of monkey's face, hat, and hand in relation to the Magician. IMO these compositional features are far more convincing than the details, although the details here seem pretty good too.
I think Michael's remarks about the "compositional" features are spot on. The overall balance of the face-turban makes it IMO an inescapable interpretation. As for the "details", I do think that the angle of the face looks better as the designer made it than in the "upright" posture, but this is to be expected as that is how he worked.
Frankly, I'm blown away by this discovery. All these years of a BLOB on the back of the Cary Sheet Magician, and now we have a real live monkey.
(BTW, the reason Michael isn't here for himself is because he's lost his code or his screen name, and can't sign in).
Ross