My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust
A stela being a slab of stone or a similar material, with a bas-relief etching on its surface, and erected in the ancient world as a monument, to me this appears vertical, John. And, as I was studying it, I can see the mirroring from left to right, those small red shapes in the middle pulling me into the mirror. I pulled a copy and flipped it vertically, in Preview (on my Mac), and saw better the face in the middle that I perceived in your original. It's another one of those rare images that forces this 64-year-old brain to actually work, so thanks for the mental exercise.
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Nik, a little artistic license. Mayan Stelae were vertical, stone, and not painted. As a rule.
In this picture, I did not like the vertical look so made it horizontal and added "Horizontal" to the title. It does not depict a scene from Coba, an ancient Mayan city on the Yucatan peninsula, but rather, just me doing an artistic representation.
No Mayan would ever accept my picture as anything they had ever seen before, anywhere, in mesoamerica.
The face in the center of the horizontal picture can be quickly seen if you start with the red lips, center/bottom of that particular space, and work your way up.
Thanks for seeing the face and the images embedded in the four red squares.