While the bug man was spraying around in Buzzy’s Country Store the other day, I was relaxing in Jenn’s apartment above the Store when this painting on her wall caught my eye. Ironically, I remembered hanging it up for her awhile back but because I was so focused on the task at hand, I didn’t bother to really look at it.
The other day however, with the luxury of time on my hands, the painting took on new meaning for me. I like the way the artist Daniel Pollera pulls you into the scene and you find yourself looking right at the middle of what he has directed your eye to. He then highlights the water just enough and now you find yourself switching back and forth between the chairs and the highlights. Pretty cool.
Pollera is a practitioner of a whole sub-category of art known as Beach Scene Art. To check out some of Pollera’s other stuff (click here.) Samples are shown here:
And speaking of how I didn’t really appreciate this until I stopped and gave it a good once over, click here and take this test.
Turns out there is a term for this known as Inattentional blindness. Natalie Merchant even wrote a song about it.