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Erik Johansson painted this amazing optical illusion of height on the street of Stockholm.
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Doug Wheeler - SA MI 75 DZ NY 12 (2012)
“It seems as if a semi-transparent, rectangular membrane were separating you from a white space of indeterminable extent beyond. You might reach out, gingerly, to be assured that there is nothing to bump into.
Here there is, it seems, nothing but whiteness as far as the eye can see. How far is that? You cannot tell just by looking, but as you walk toward the far wall, you find that the floor curves up and merges seamlessly into the perpendicular wall, and the material facts start to fall into place. Looking back, you discover an impressive battery of high-tech lighting previously hidden behind the framing proscenium.
The world is full of objects and textured surfaces; these are what our eyes are designed to see. That form of perception helps orient us in space. But, as Immanuel Kant observed long ago, it is not certain that space and time exist independently of human consciousness.
Mr. Wheeler’s white room may be a preview of the universal divine light into which each of us will merge, according to some mystics, when we die.”
Tomas Saraceno - Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web (2008)
Patrick Hübschmann | Facebook (Germany) - Frost
Baden-Baden-based designer and photographer Patrick Hübschmann mainly focused on nature and landscape photography. He has built, according to Christopher O’Donnell of Photography Blogger, a reputation for creating strong, soulful images that explore the deeper emotion behind a scene.
[more Patrick Hübschmann | artist found at devidsketchbook]
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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his moonlit scenes and landscapes.
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