Hidden faces

it is said that human beings are hard-wired to identify the human face from a distance. we only need a few minimal details to make the recognition, and as such we’re predisposed to seeing human faces in everyday objects such as clouds, buildings, and paintings. this phenomenon is termed pareidolia, and you can see it in the paintings of oleg shuplyak. the artist from ukraine cleverly uses people, objects, and landscapes to give his paintings a double meaning. see the hidden faces in a few of shuplyak’s paintings below.