Hidden in plain sight

One of the most interesting aspects of sigils is that to the untrained eye, they are nothing more than squiggles that can easily and unobtrusively be incorporated into all kinds of art. This is a very different take on sigil art than my very obvious sigil paintings -- where the sigil itself is the subject. This is more about hiding the sigil within the item so that it becomes appropriate in more contexts. Here's a quick and dirty example of what I'm talking about.

This is a cellphone picture I took this summer while having dinner out with my family. It was a gorgeous evening, seated right out on the dock of a lovely lakeside restaurant, and we were treated to a beautiful sunset.

This is a version of the picture where I added a sigil for joy, using the two lights on the far shore as part of the sigil.Notice anything? No? I didn't think so. In fact, at such a small size, you probably can't see anything at all.

Up close, you can see it, but it hardly detracts from the picture. Up close you can also see that this is a pretty quick and cheap photo edit which I did in just a few minutes using MS Paint. Using a more sophisticated application with filtering capability, you could do some very subtle and beautiful manipulation of an image. In fact, this sigil is not charged or active (though joy would be a perfectly appropriate sigil to include in this image since that's what I was feeling when the picture was taken).

I imagine that this picture could be printed, charged, and then hung in any place (like an office) where you want to experience more joy without, you know, having giant magical symbols around.