Optical illusion art brings a bit of magic to the streets, using paint, paste-ups or photographic tiles to transform urban surfaces into massive sinkholes, bizarre portals and mysterious doors ...
Even crueler than a real mirage, this convincing illusion continues to look like a real body of water until you reach down to touch its surface, only to find that it’s as solid as anything ...
At first glance it looks as if thin layers of these walls have been slowly torn away in concentric shapes, leading deeper and deeper into the spaces on the other side. No longer clearly cinder ...
A white box seems to hover in mid-air in the middle of the forest, with no visible supports suspending it from adjacent trees. This structure isn't a treehouse at all, and it's actually at least ...
Reality is malleable and nothing is quite as it seems in the surreal world of photographer Erik Johansson, who takes hundreds of photos of a single subject, merges them together and digitally ...
Deceptively solid-looking when seen from either side, the delicacy of these paper sculptures is revealed if you simply shift your position to view them straight on. Korean artist Ho Yoon Shin ...
This skull is a three-dimensional object that you can hold in your hand, not an image that has been stretched and distorted in Photoshop. It's one of many visually confusing sculptures by Robert ...
Mirrors typically represent a way of facing reality, but depending on where they're placed, they can bend it to the point of surreality instead. Take, for example, this invisible fence, a ...
Holograms suggest a depth and dimension that isn't really there, an illusion of matter in space that can range from a low-tech flickering image in a children's book to ghostly computer-generated ...
These images may look like people photoshopped onto a background of sketches, but look again - those scribbles are actual, three-dimensional furniture. Art student Daigo Fukawa of Tokyo University ...
