It’s All In How You Look At It

>office furniture in Bulgariasure that you’ve probably seen those images that different people see different ways. Some people see the image of a vase, and others see the faces of two people looking at each other. There are some cases where people can’t see the other image at all.

For the last few months one of the other companies that share the building I work in has had a poster hanging from the cafeteria door. This poster is for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. It is a large poster that covers the upper half of the door. Most of the poster is devoted to some images of the kids you could help out by donating, along with a description of their wish. Along the bottom is a strip of space devoted to tracking the total donations to date. You simply color in the bar graph as the donations climb. This area isn’t just white space, or graduated with percentages of the goal. There is an image there, and it’s not just one image, it’s a pattern of the same image repeated along the length of the area.

As I said, this has been hanging for months. The whole time I have been wondering, “Why would they have a poorly drawn outline of Idaho on that poster?” I just couldn’t figure it out - until today.

Today was the day that I walked past the poster, and like the vase and faces image, the true nature of the appearance of the bad outline of Idaho revealed itself to me. It’s not the state of Idaho, because you are not supposed to be looking at the black area of the image.

The white area of the image is the profile of a face.

Lesson of the day - try to look at something you see everyday in a different way, you might be surprised.

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