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Neil Dawson’s Horizons

This piece of art by Neil Dawson is called Horizons. It is located in New Zealand on “The Farm,” a large private art park owned by Alan Gibbs, a New Zealand businessman, entrepreneur, and art patron worth about $450 million dollars.

Fun Fact: If you can’t see the optical illusion you may have schizophrenia!



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really really cool, I love this sort of art work. Plus it shows that not all modern art is ridiculous.

I feel like you can't really appreciate it fully until you see it in real life though.



Fly to New Zealand and see it live?



good idea!

... you got £750 I can borrow. ; )



I.... don't get it.

It looks like a drawing...



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Kasz216 said:

I.... don't get it.

It looks like a drawing...

It's something that has actually been built and photographed to my understanding. It's pretty awesome if that is really the case. It must have been quite a project to get it right



I don't get it? what am I suppose to be seeing for me to be normal?



 

I think you're supposed to see it as a 3D object, while it's 2D (well, ignoring the thickness of a steel bar).Though people usually expect something crazier when something gets called an optical illusion.

Not sure I'd be able to perceive it as 3D though, if I was there and walking around it. And maybe anyone trained in some modelling/architecture will perceive as 2D after seing three photos with different angles not affecting what you see.



For those not getting it.

Think cartoons in real world.