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Chip Ettinger, a professor at Eastern Oregon University and his wife Amelia are confident that the drawing of bones (above and lower left) conceals a self-portait of Leonardo da Vinci (lower right). To better see what the Ettingers see, stand a few feet away from the computer screen and a bit off to the side.
Chip Ettinger, a professor at Eastern Oregon University and his wife Amelia are confident that the drawing of bones (above and lower left) conceals a self-portait of Leonardo da Vinci (lower right). To better see what the Ettingers see, stand a few feet away from the computer screen and a bit off to the side.

Chip Ettinger's obsession hangs in a dimly lit exhibition room on OMSI's first floor. To most of us, it's a handsome drawing of feet, one of Leonardo da Vinci's elegant studies of the human body.

Stand back a bit, try 5 or 10 feet. Take a step or two to the right. Tip your head to the side. Look again.

Do you see it now?