Chinese artist Li Jiayue transforms and camouflages concrete columns, tree trunks, and other architectural objects with impressive skill.

By expertly mimicking the background of a scene, Jiayue gives the illusion that giant concrete columns are floating in midair, or have been transformed into something else.

The illusion only works when the viewer looks at something head-on, but even still, it’s a neat visual trick, and shows that painting can extend our reality, or in this case, suspend it.

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1 Comment

  1. arcb42633

    Wow totally awesome. I would love to buy a big book of his art. Just to be amazed over and over again.

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