Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Mar 25 2025 - Don't like that portrait?

 

Trump's "personal" news story is his dislike for a portrait hanging in the Colorado State Capitol. It's been there for 6 years, but he has suddenly decided it is "truly the worst."  The artist is Sarah Boardman.  Her quote: "I consider a neutrally thoughtful, and non-confrontational, portrait allows everyone to reach their own conclusions in their own time..."

Another version of the story from newrepulic.com goes like this: 

"President Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum Sunday, demanding that an unflattering portrait of him be taken out of the Colorado state Capitol. 

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote in an outraged post on Truth Social.

To me, he looks like there's food in his mouth.  My guess is there's a substantial portion of a muffin in there. Food that he doesn't want to swallow.

 

 If we turn to photography, people hating their picture is common as 95% of people hate having their picture taken, and one answer is that we are used to seeing our mirror image that seeing the real one seems strange and odd to us. 

The author is a photographer and included these two images of himself as a demonstration.  Isn't this so fascinating to see a mirror image. 
 

Here's a mouse-view of crocuses.  
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