Seeing is not the perception of reality, we are constantly interpreting and constructing a reality based on visual input. An anamorphosis is a deformed image that appears in its true shape when viewed in a particular unconventional way … the viewer must seek out the unconventional viewpoint from which the visual trick is resolved. In the case of trompe l’oeil, the viewer, standing in one particular (and usually conventional) place, is tricked into seeing an invented image as if it were reality.

Tags: audience, visual perception