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All Optical Illusions and Impossible Constructions

Prints and drawings that play with perception and logic, showing stairs that climb in every direction or two hands drawing each other into existence. A work belongs here when the cited article describes the work in terms of paradox, perspective or impossible space. It excludes realistic landscapes and portraits. These prints are often used to illustrate ideas about infinity and self reference, and the group follows the idea the cited article names.

All Optical Illusions and Impossible Constructions
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Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia
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It depicts a paradoxical architectural structure in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply.
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Drawing Hands - Wikipedia
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Drawing Hands has gained cultural significance as a metaphor, illustrating concepts of interdependence and paradoxical self-creation.
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