Now You See It — or Maybe You Don’t: Amazing Ways To Fool the Eye

This is a fast-paced, entertaining slide talk about how artists, magicians and others (including forms in nature) have benefited from the use of such illusions as skewed perspective, deceptive resemblance, and other ways to fool the eye. The talk is illustrated by a wide range of curious visual examples, both historic and contemporary, from distorted rooms to hidden figures to anamorphic street art—an example of which is the Great Dysart Gorge, which is currently on view on Main Street in Dysart.

Norma Anders Public Library

26 July 2018  -  7:00 pm

Distorted room experiment.

This is a one-hour presentation by author, teacher and design historian Roy Behrens, who has been researching and writing about human vision, illusions and related subjects for more than 45 years. The talk is appropriate for all ages, and is free and open to the public.