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| Senior Art Exhibit California Baptist University 2002 Illusion:through color and pattern |
| Butterflies & Flowers Tessellation Oil on Primed Board |
| Senior Exhibit |
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| Self Portrait Mosaic Acrylic on Canvas |
| Lighthouse Mosaic Magazine Clippings |
| Day at the Beach Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Shifting Blocks Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Distorted Shapes Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Hazy Dots Acrylic on Canvas |
| Sunburst Acrylic on Canvas |
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| Tessellations utilize a combination of mathematics and artistic ability. They are comprised of a repeated pattern, with no overlap. |
| Up close these blocks of color may somewhat register as a recognizable image, but when you view the pattern from a distance, the squares blur together into the likeness of myself. |
| Up close, the sharp edged blocks of different colors do not register in our brains as anything but that. At a distance, your brain processes the blocks, blurring them into a familiar subject. |
| At first glance, the black shapes form the prominent image, but take a second look. Once you notice that the negative white space forms various images also, your eyes must shift back and forth from dark to light seeking the positive element. |
| Are they coming in or going out? The blocks appear to change oreientation as you shift your focus from one point to another. |
| The appearance of the pure shapes are slightly skewed due to their interaction with the overlying pattern. |
| After staring, small hazy dots appear at the intersections of the black and gray lines. (Particularly with the white on black.) But try to focus your attention on one in particular. |
| Every line on this canvas is perfectly straight, despite their distorted appearance. Based on a concept conceived and studied by Wilhelm Wundt in 1896, since the background pattern is familiar to our brains, your brain takes a shortcut and the depth changes our perception of the parallel lines, warping them. |
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