Yesterday I ran across this photo in the San Francisco Chronicle, and I thought, "Oh, that's lovely!" . . . | . . . "But HOW could there be no mention of the amazing face peering out of Ms. Frances Chung's knee?" |
And so I find myself pulled back into my old fascination with the faces in our knees! Years ago in art school, I got my first exposure to this thrilling topic on page 134 of the "Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist" (Stephen Rogers Peck). I thought it was a charming idea and it stuck in my mind, but it wasn't until many years later as a Pilates teacher that I saw my first real live knee-face. "Whoa!" I said to my client practicing on the Pilates Reformer in shorts, "You've got faces in your knees!" He said: "What?" (Nervous laughter.) |
I had to take a picture so he'd believe me.
So then I went home and dug out the old book, hoping to find forgotten details explaining what these faces are made of, but alas, the only explaining Mr. Peck had done about this tantalizing topic was "kneecap has a 'beard' of fat," and "Cupid's face in female knee." Humpfh. (And I had just found out that he was wrong if he was implying that only female knees can have faces.)
What can we deduce from looking at these sketches? I think the brow, the eyes, and the bridge of the nose are formed by the patella.
That's about as far as I've gotten, but I want to know which structures in the knee, during what phase of action or tension or other factors, actually make the human face appear.
What can we deduce from looking at these sketches? I think the brow, the eyes, and the bridge of the nose are formed by the patella.
That's about as far as I've gotten, but I want to know which structures in the knee, during what phase of action or tension or other factors, actually make the human face appear.
Don't you?
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