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trompe l'oeil is actually the lie intent to deceive deliberately, whereas true perspective is the lie that tells the truth
What you know is not what you see,
the paradox of perceptual reality
- the lie that portrays what is perceived -
the truth.
Ascending and descending,
rise and fall of horizontal constants,
angles ever on the move to converge on that blessed universal
one person perspective, you outside the frame.
Until Einstein broke all the rules.
What would it look like… feel like…
if I followed this line with my finger as mark maker,
thick and black,
a light dusting of charcoal detritus
littering the paper plane,
or the glorious deep, darkness of India ink.
To perceive with my eyes,
perception mark,
to effect my hand’s movement,
effect mark.
Step after step
a dance, default;
settings encoded in synapses trained by neurons firing,
power through illusion, fact or truth,
trompe l’oeil.
Such verisimilitude deceives viewer’s valuation
of material reality - space in time.
Though trompe l'oeil is actually the lie intent to deceive deliberately,
whereas true perspective is the lie that tells the truth1.
What every child is never told.
Perhaps why most children of a certain age stop drawing?
We’re not meant to lie.
Again so deeply encoded as to guarantee glitches.
This cannot be so,
my brain tells me my hand cannot do what my eyes see.
It is incorrect.
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“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” Pablo Picasso
To read more about this see: Optical Illusions In Art: Or--Discover How Paintings Aren't Always What They Seem to Be by Alexander Sturgis
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