I have a strange fascination with photos of the ocean, in disorienting views, often with people doing disorienting things. Spatial disorientation is an interesting condition, when you can't perceive up versus down. When a sky is mistaken for an ocean. An even more interesting principle is the horizon line. When two planes of space "intersect". Or when people thought the world just ended at the horizon, because the Earth was flat. So when you combine two confounding things: the Earth looks flat, and the sky looks like the ocean, you get one great mess. And no matter how many ways you flip the ocean sideways or flip a person sideways in a normally oriented ocean, it is always incredibly perplexing. But maybe that's the beauty of them—their ability to confuse people in a very profound way.



1. via blacksheep
2. and of Philippe Ramette