Itsjustlife.com | Derek Bair| Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter

Hi my name is Derek! I'm a writer, photographer, and a digital artist. For the last 6+ years i've been working on a book called: "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter". It's mostly about different discoveries I've made with Leonardo da Vinci's art: Inluding the Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Vitruvian Man, The Shroud of Turin, and more. It's a long story (hence the book) but I found that he used a previously un-discovered techniques to hide/ disguise additional images in his art that can't be seen without knowing how.

“There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” -daVinci

To understand what I've found has led me to research other subjects that include optics, perception, perspective, humanities, optical illusions, and our vision system. These same subjects were explained in epic detail in Leonardo's own journals. It was through his journals and studying them with modern technology, that I have been able to understand how he achieved this "new" technique.

"I reveal to men the origin of the first, or perhaps second cause of their existence." daVinci

He was the first to conceive of tanks, planes, robots, automobiles, parachutes, submarines, and other things that were FAR ahead of their time. This inventiveness wasn't limited to engineering and inventions but also to revolutionizing art and painting. Anamorphosis, stereography, "photography", 3D and painting with transparent layers “Sfumato” were in his technical artistic arsenal. What I’ve discovered will add even more advanced achievements to the ever increasing legacy of the amazing Leonardo da Vinci.

“All of our knowledge has it's origins in our perceptions.” -daVinci

My book will follow the journey i've been on in something i'm calling "Interjections" that are interwoven between each chapter. How did a 20'something go from working as a receptionist & going to community college to running away to Australia and eventually to writing a book about Leonardo da Vinci? Why? How?

You can preview "Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter" by going through this site and visiting my blog.

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" -daVinci

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"Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past. Prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly." - daVinci

INTERJECTIONS:

In my book I'm including "Interjections" which are like blog posts interwoven between each chapter. They follow the story of how I wrote the book and what happened along the way...

"Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter"

May 2007:

Interjection Ten

"Something else very fascinating happened to me the night I made the initial discovery. It’s not something I can’t prove or reproduce (yet) but is something you’ll just have to trust me about. Not sleeping or eating is said to cause hallucinations and delusions and before I said I would have to agree. But I must also expand upon that.

...

So when I explain what happened to me next I hope you’ll understand that it really did happen, but it’s not something you would normally believe without proof. If I’m right in my theory about it, which I’ll explain after, then I will be able to prove it and maybe even teach others to experience it - but for now it’s just a memory from a mind that hadn’t slept in days..

After looking at the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci’ sketch for literally hours and hours I began to see things..

I started to put the Mona Lisa on top of itself in hundreds of different ways. Placing a smaller copy upside down at one spot and then a larger at another – all on top of the original and different transparencies. It made for some very interesting images, but the strange thing isn’t how I did it, but why? Why would I think to do that? What purpose could it serve? Fascinatingly the random placements, the painting arranged sporadically started to change. I started to see various things inside the composite images.

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I remember specifically seeing a frog and musical notes and other things I could see but not recognize. I could only see them when I wasn’t focused and out of the corner of my eye. Now there are two different things this would make you think.

1. I was delusional and just seeing things that weren’t there.

2. I was seeing something that was there.

I admit the possibility of not really seeing anything. But let’s think about what it means if I really was seeing something that was there.

Frogs and musical notes are something possible for Da Vinci to paint. If I would have seen cars, or monsters, or “the devil”, I would be inclined to believe my mind was making stuff up. BUT since what I was seeing was drawn in Da Vinci’s style and similar to his other content it makes me think what I thought I saw was actually a possibility if there was something there.

Next I would wonder why I would have thought to put the painting on itself like that. If I really was seeing something that was there, then it makes sense that I put the painting how it was TO see something. If I would have been seeing these images in the wall, or something random it would make me think I was just seeing things. But since I was seeing things inside of a painting that I had re-arranged in a specific way then it makes sense that I was seeing something that was there. Why I arranged the painting like that is answered by the things I saw.

Now you would wonder, as I still do, HOW? If I really was seeing something that was intended to be seen, how could I? Why did positioning the Mona Lisa, how I did, create new images? How could that happen?"

	Discovering Da Vinci's Daughter Is the title of a book i've been working on for the past 5 years. I'm writing Version 2.0 Right now and hope to be finally finished soon. You can preview it, what it's about, and what I discovered by clicking HERE.
	Leonardo Ser Perro da Vinci Italian inventor, painter, and apex Renaissance man: He also considered the greatest Genius who has ever lived, the end. HERE.
	The Mona Lisa Is the most famous work of art in existence. Her face is also one of the most recognizable - and is potentially worth a billion dollars. It's both a mystery and a convtroversy over who she really is and how da Vinci painted her. -READ MORE
	Salai Giacomo This is a painting of Da Vinci's pupil, assistant, and probable lover Salino Giocomo, or "Salai." Why is the title "Mona Lisa" an anagram for "Mon Salai" ? Why does a painting of Salai combine with the painting of Mona Lisa? READ MORE
	The Last Supper There is something really special about Da Vinci's art, especially so in one of the most famous and controversial paintings in the world: "The Last Supper" From the gender of the character to the left of Jesus, to the hand holding a knife? What I found answers these questions but also asks a LOT more READ MORE
	Shroud of Turin Vs. Vitrivuan Man The Shroud of Tuin is said to be the single most studied human artifact of all time- with very good reason. It's more like a 3d photograph from possibly thousands of years ago. Some believe it's proof of Jesus's divinity, some think it's a weird scientific anomoly, but no one knows for sure. I think I know who made it.. READ MORE

"What does it all mean, I don't know yet, but that made me decide to contact you who may really be the best Da Vinci expert in this age if not the reincarnated Da Vinci himself" - Teemu

"..your book really fascinated me a lot (as the topic was very different and new for me)...Well i have started reading your book and i am liking your research...." Deepika Mehta

"I find your work to be outstanding. I too think that you are just dangling on the precipice of a greater discovery." - Mark

"..Pure genius and nothing more.." Pramod K. Uday

"You my friend you're like a Champollion and your book must be the Rosetta stone. I really don't understand why yourwork isn't well known or at least credited properly. The website is so pleasant too, your focus and perspective on Da Vinci is for me like entering that new dimension which was there all along but i couldn't acknowledge without the proper key companion to shed a different light than the common mainstream thinking and analysis. And I just bought your book! I'm so excited, i couldn't wait for the re-visited version, i'm too curious to wait actually!" @FritesMoutarde

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