Current fashions call to mind images of 19th-century demimondaines, flouncing in laced undergarments and high-button boots.
Or maybe it's because people find something oddly comforting in images of human suffering that call to mind other images of human suffering.
The leaping flame of the fire can call to mind strange images, which seem to be beyond the boundaries of normal knowledge.
If "Griot New York" cannot help but bring to mind images of black history, this is because the work itself plays with ambiguity.
In one, blacks pouring through gateways to the North bring to mind images of refugee masses lined up at Ellis Island.
I can call to mind distinct images which, I believe, date back to when I was about eleven months old.
His "Cell" pictures, evoking molecular clusters, can bring to mind similar images by Terry Winters.
The teams' first meeting this season will inevitably bring to mind images of Miller's 25-point, fourth-quarter barrage in Game 5.
Ham radios may bring to mind images of basement electronics fanatics or cold war bomb shelters.
Bringing to mind images of her betrayal of Natasha Mayakova, she began to weep.