Faces

Let's talk about faces. In doing this experiment a couple of things stood out to me
1. I started to look for faces in everything. Then I started to think: What makes a face? I believe that society or humans in general have this concept of what a face is. Even in Startrek, when we think about the "aliens" they encountered, all of them had some sort of resemblance to human bodily characteristics. We have to have eyes to see, a nose to breathe, skin to feel and arms/legs/body to touch and move. Even in Lord Of The Rings when the trees developed eyes, a mouth, a nose and the branches became their limbs.

I think we assume that if we ever encountered a real alien that we can communicate verbally, by signals or by telepathy....but it would be something we can understand or that we can relate to.

Also, I realise that my concept of faces, even though bound by the societal concepts, also has a sense of freedom in that e.g. a face doesnt have to be round, or have a nose, or a mouth or even be human-like. I hope I'm making sense. Let's take Wall-E or Transformers for instance...the earlier drawings for the Transformers had their faces looking more humanoid than recently. Basically what I'm saying is that movies like these open our minds to new concepts ...things we wouldn't normally pick up on.

Anyways...check out my cool faces!