The Shapeshifter

It's nice to mess with your perspective once in a while.

While many artists prefer to chalk their 3-D trompe l'oeil works on city streets, Felice Varini takes his to buildings. From one vantage point his installations look like someone has taken a photo and overlaid a perfect geometric shape. But as one moves through the space, the object becomes distorted. What was once a perfect circle now is a twisted gaggle of arcs in varying thickness.

It's a disarming way to think of geometry like Felice does: each pure shape is really a jumbled mix of line, perspective, angle, and fragments. The sheer complexity of making something appear so simple is what's so enticing about his work. Kinda makes that geometry class we took in high school seem downright easy.