The phenomenon you will experience with this portrait is visual hallucination. Was the painter a highly skilled master artist, just lucky, a combination of both or perhaps something entirely else? I don't have the answer to that but, gentlemen, you will be floored at the degree to which this portrait will scowl at you and conversely smile.
How can the same painting smile and scowl at you without moving the paint around, you may ask? It's impossible, but the degree to which she does is remarkable, to say the least.
This jpeg image has not been digitally altered to enhance effect. This is an unaltered photo of the original painting.
As you will quickly learn, most of the time she appears calm and neutral (about 95% of the time). This is how the painting was composed. Psychologists and scientists will surely assert that her remarkable morphic qualities are indebted to this fact. That said, however, her scowl could stop a freight train and her smile would give a monk plenty of ideas. Expect nothing less than this because it really does work.
If you want to experience this, you have to do the following: Print this jpeg image (or make a screen-saver from it). It doesn't matter how you do it, just as long as the portrait is displayed prominently in a place you will see it on a regular basis over time i.e. office, dining room, screen-saver, bedroom, bathroom etc. Also be sure not to display her too close to you because she never transforms when I can see all her details clearly. Somewhere just before the range of visual impairment is ideal. And that's it. (it should take only a week for you to start seeing it).
Generally, when you have negative feelings she scowls and she smiles when you're having positive feelings (i.e. all this week she's been smiling to me because I'm excited about sending her in to your website).
It doesn't seem to work if you stare at it. It seems to work only when I'm thinking about something else and I just happen to look up at her for no reason, so just tack her up somewhere prominent and forget about her.
As a long time listener of your program, I know that you and your radio listeners have high expectations. I promise, you wont be dissapointed, this really works.
FUN FACTS ABOUT THE PAINTING:
1) The painting is dated 1849 and states Vienna, Austria as its place of origin.
2) My sister bought it four years ago (in 1998) at a B.Y.O.F. (Bring Your Own Flashlight) Midnight Flea-Market sale in Prague, Czech Republic.
3) The dealer that my sister bought it from purchased it himself because he liked the antique frame. Inside of the frame was a "horrible" photo and only at home, after removing the photo did he discover the hidden painting underneath.
4) On her right side of her white ruffled collar are the numbers "9523" clearly "stitched" into the collar. I don't know what the significance is.
5) The name of the artist is unknown (he/she didn't sign it) but perhaps through the power of the internet, one of your worldly listeners might solve the mystery.
6) And finally, if you liked the ending to The Sixth Sense you'll probably like this: The woman in the painting is the spitting-image of my sister (with the notable exception that my sister has blue eyes and the woman in the portrait clearly has hazel eyes). Perhaps it is normal for people be attracted to artwork that resembles them...or is it? (insert spooky laughter here;)
All of the above information is verifiable, accurate, repeatable, open to scrutiny and authenticity checks.
painting9523@yahoo.com
I'd like to receive feedback from other people's experiences with the image. Perhaps one of your listeners could tell us who the painter is or what the #9523 is all about.
It would also be interesting to find out what's happening in the brain when people see her scowl or smile. MRI scans of people observing the picture might give interesting results.
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