I received this email yesterday from an artist requesting my opinion. Feel free to leave your own opinion in the comments:
Being an artist, in August of 1996 I painted a picture.
It was supposed to be a simple picture of a large cross on a white background.
The picture is 24 x 30. The two axis of the cross are 11.5 inches wide.
Roughly 28 x 22.5. The cross was made by taking a pallet of mixed colors of paint and with one vertical and one horizontal swipe nothing more.
When the paint dried you could "I would say" clearly see the face of Christ on the cross. I was so afraid I put the picture away and in the last 8 years have only showed it to several of my friends. Please give me your honest input on what you see in and think about my picture.
You can either call or email me back.
This is no joke.
Warmest Regards,
DiMarcia (Dee) Ancrum
(Click on the image to enlarge it. I had to trim it down significantly because the image file was huge... 3.3MB)
Comments
It's Me. DiMarcia and I must say the responses are exactly what I expected.
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Because this is not an attempt at deception it can't be classified as a hoax.
So call it anything you like, stupid, strange, nothing at all but you can't call it a hoax.
If you don't see it fine, if you see something other than what everyone else see, still fine.
As for my other artwork, I donate to non-profits fund-raiser to raise money and I only sale to close friends and family.
"Because this is not an attempt at deception it can't be classified as a hoax.
So call it anything you like, stupid, strange, nothing at all but you can't call it a hoax."
Um, I think the people who have used the word "hoax" to refer to your painting are implying that you DID attempt to deceive. Maybe you didn't, but that's the reason people would use that word to describe something. This IS the Museum of Hoaxes website, after all. Besides, wouldn't a hoaxer deny being a hoaxer?
I would like to think myself pretty level headed when it come to being objective and I guess I expected the same of others.
Are you still scared of looking at this picture? It is time you changed to a better medication or a facility