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present state, being enclosed in a mirror. Anamorphosis, or rather, the visual rays branching out of it – is located in
a representation in perspective forgotten several times ETCHINg AND CHROME PLATTED the space it creates and defines, also staying aware of the
over, then used again and again, is a somewhat naïve BRASS PYRAMID 16x15x5½ IN. / modifications its movement brings about in the meaning
and mystic wilding – to achieve ab ovo impossibilities 41,3x39,7x14 CM. of the image. whilst engaged in this in the physical space,
with its oblique visual angles, the solution to the original he involuntarily perceives the reception upon himself, or if
mirror situation – at least under theoretical, or if you like, you like, observes the psychological mechanism of ‘artistic
laboratory conditions. The viewer of anamorphosis not only pleasure’ in the spiritual space generated by anamorphosis.
completes the work – to quote Duchamp’s notorious saying One who comes into contact with anamorphoses will
– he also completes himself to be identified as viewer. while feel more self-contained, yet also more vulnerable: upon
looking for the appropriate viewpoint and recognising the recognising the exchange of roles and place, one has to
image distorted so that it once again becomes meaningful, realise he is no longer at the centre of the world. On the one
he also defines his own spatial co-ordinates. The viewer of hand, he will feel the wonder of the creation of an image;
anamorphosis does not focus on the image projected onto on the other, he will know he has been left alone with this
his retina, but rather the correlations between the work and illusion that does not even exist in reality, but is rather a
himself. He has to concentrate on where the work of art – projection appearing only in his own mind.
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