| Wednesday |
| "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant" |
A rush of excitement flowed through me as i purchased my ticket into the Eyes, Lies and Illusions exhibition yesterday, at Federation Square. The exhibition essentially explored the art and science of visual perception through time, constantly tricking our eyes, deceiving and enhancing our minds. It took us on a journey where nothing seen is what it seems.
Here are some of the many highlights:
Rotoreliefs: Optical discs placed on a turntable of a phonograph, producing the illusion of motion and depth. To make the illusion work, stare at the centre of the discs. (The one with the fish being my favourite)
Anamorphosis: A deformed drawing on a piece of paper that appears in proportion when viewed from a particular angle through some sort of prism.
Thaumatropes: A thaumatrope is a small disc, held on opposite sides of its circumference by pieces of string. An image is drawn on each side of the disc, and is selected in such a way that when the disc is spun, the two images appear to become superimposed. This illusion relies on the persistence of vision principle, where the eye has the ability to retain an image for roughly 1/20th of a second after the image is gone, thus, the faster the disc is spun, the greater the clarity of the illusion.
Anthropomorphic images:
After subjected to the series of bombardment by real images that are in fact fake and fake images that are in fact real, by the end of the hour i almost forgot what was real and what was only an illusion. By the 10th station of contemporary works, we arrived at a room full of haze, entitled "Line describing a Cone." Very cautiously, i walked into the enclosed room where the haze highlighted a beam of light projected from a distance. In the mist of the hazy lighting were two girls facing us, standing there and talking and gesturing to one another in slow motion - or so it seemed. I stared at them for a good minute, wondering how this mysterious beam of light could possibly create the outline of two girls in motion. Suddenly, they sat down with their bags and told us to go over to where they were standing and look into the beam of light. I was stunned. I paused for a moment before i dragged myself towards them, still wondering whether it was all part of the trick. It was then that i realised they were in fact real. Oops. |
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those optical illusions are very cool.
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