The above animation (from http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/E361/suppl/DCSupplemental) uses only nine points to evoke the figure walking.

Johansson’s ground breaking point light experiments have given rise to whole field of research into the perception of bio-dynamics, including this interactive sex-changing walker at BioMotionLabs.

Johansson in his work managed to evoke the movement of a human leg with just three dots.

I want to do something equivalent with a still figure. That is, I would like to explore the minimum marks required to draw a recognisable figure.

Of course, people have been seeing people, animals and objects in dots of light in the sky for thousands of years.

 

The Audrey Coffee Stains series walks the boundary between a deliberate depiction and a stain which looks like something (in this case Audrey Hepburn seated). The challenge is to  make it look accidental (which I have failed to do here). Keep watching the stains!