optical illusion
Carefully Posed Humans Create Eye-Popping Optical Illusions to Support Pet Adoption
A cat, dog, and bunny emerge from the blank space in between these intimate family portraits.
These Kaleidoscopic Paintings Look Like Optical Illusions
Evie Zimmer's hypnotizing works unleash a world of drippy, trippy psychedelia.
Salty Artist Makes Pillars of Art with Condiments
From portraits to pop culture icons, Sultani Bashir uses a salt shaker as his paintbrush.
Sky-High Murals Reveal Hidden Poetry After Dark
The key to these murals' transformations? Turning out the lights.
Is This Woman Spinning Left or Right?
Everything you've been told about this optical illusion is a lie.
An Artist Works with Shadows to Bring His Doodles to Life
The sun is this Dutch artist’s creative assistant in his shadow-enhanced doodles.
Frozen Food Photos Tantalize the Senses with Unexpected Forms
Wrap your mind around spherical lasagna and an undulating slice of pizza.
Dancer Defies Gravity Amidst 5,700 Nylon Strings
Like a creature in a spider's web, Kaori Ito is trapped and suspended onstage at BAM.
Innocence Lost in these Black and White Collages of Children
Preconceptions of childhood's haven are broken down in Constantinos Chaidalis’s small, textured collages.
Minimalist Optical Patterns Emerge in Max Cooper’s New Music Video
For Max Cooper’s track “Waves,” experimental video artist Kevin McGloughlin conjures hypnotic, minimalist waveforms.