'Cork is a friendly giant': Irish visual artist brings our counties to life

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HAVE you ever seen a face in some random shape, or perhaps in an object encountered in your daily life? For example, like a doorknob resembling a big nose between two eyes made of screws, or the front grill of a car or Jeep seeming to form a massive grin across its metallic face? You’ve experienced what’s referred to as face pareidolia.

Pareidolia explains how our brains are hardwired to perceive faces in the world around us, looking, as we subconsciously do, for any human connection.