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Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions


Artists find mind-bending ways to bring visual illusions called impossible figures into three-dimensional reality.


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beautiful pieces made from rubbish.

The image on the left, “Dead White Trash (With Gulls), 1998

shadow cast from a pile of garbage

The image on the right is “Real Life Is Rubbish, 2002,”
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Shigeo Fukuda welded together 848 forks, knives and spoons to make “Lunch With a Helmet On.”
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"Underground Piano"

Depending on where you stand, you can see the mirror image of a pile of piano parts as a beautiful whole instrument
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One-Man Band

represent a pianist and violinist in the same sculpture
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Ascending and Descending

M. C. Escher’s “Ascending and Descending” Lego rendition
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M. C. Escher’s “Relativity” appears here as a 3-D representation made with Lego

(no trick photography… it’s all real)
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Impossible Triangle Revisited
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How to Make the Impossible Triangle
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industrial sized version of the “Impossible Triangle”
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Schepker's "Crazy Crate"
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