Scrap Book 21

This is a coat hook, to be found on the stall door in the bathroom in Dorch, 2nd left.  It seems to me to resemble a face, and specifically the face of an elephant.  I've been tempted quite a few times to draw ears around the sides.  That of course would have made it art though.  This coat hook is not art, however, because it was designed purely for the purpose of functioning as a coat hook, and was most likely in no way intended to resemble an elephant's head.  It was manufactured in a factory, made by machines, and was not the manifestation of a creative impulse to create of some individual.  The fact that I see it as an elephant head is, from a psychological perspective, due to a process I believe is called projection, the tendency of human being to see patterns or make connections that might not really be there.