Today I present you Peter Baker’s work. Open the image full size to see the effect better. This is description Peter provided: “Hi there! Here’s an illusion I created a year or two back, playing with equiluminance to generate a false sense of motion, and foreground background reversal. (And maximising attention by diagonalising the grid.)
I understand the false motion, and the foreground/background flipping, up to a point… but I’m puzzled about an unintended third effect: the zebra worms don’t look straight edged – they seem to be lumpy. Any ideas? And there’s a fourth effect – the edges of the worms seem to be brighter…
As for the title… why ‘The Cage’? On the surface we seem to be caged by either neon tubes (and more distant black and white bars) – or by the zebra worms. But really, we are caged by the fiction our own sensory apparatus presents to us as reality.” Did I mention the 5th effect? This picture really makes you nervous!
