Says D'Amico, "Virtual reality, 360-degree videos, social networks, video games that look like movies and movies that resemble video games: I think that most of the entertainment's world nowadays has become monstrous and it is no longer just eyes' illusion, but often illusion of the mind".
Kooza's direction and its talented ensemble are a feast for the eyes; illusions are made real.
Like all magic and trick-of-the-eye illusions, faking an orgasm could benefit from some expert misdirection.
In 1994, the biggest craze in kids' Christmas presents was for those Magic Eye optical illusion books.
In 1978 Darley was writing in the Hovis-ad period of phoney nostalgia for a rustic past and she had a sharp eye for illusion, noting how the cottage was designed so that its exterior was gratifyingly quaint to the superior eye, and to hell with those who had to perch in its poky rooms.
Acknowledgement: While the author created the images in the article, he followed the steps and patterns in Trick Eyes: Magical Illusions That Will Activate the Brain by Akiyoshi Kitaoka.
Looking at the bridge of the nose, an eyebrow, or just below the eyes will give the illusion of eye contact, without the intimidation of making actual eye contact.
But what a mighty spectacle it is, with a series of eye-popping illusions and conjuring tricks that make you feel as if you've fallen into a waking dream – or a nightmare.
"This project started when I was working on another creative photoshoot, experimenting with body positions to create eye-tricking illusions," Hell explained to The Huffington Post.
At the end of the three-hour play, as Mother Courage hitches herself to her wagon, alone, she looks straight ahead, resembling not the carrion bird she is generally perceived to be but a life force, her eyes stripped of illusion, her heart pumping real feelings, swimming in real blood.
But unlike Balanchine and Cunningham, Nikolais was interested in sleight-of-hand and eye, in visual illusion rather than the expansion of a dance vocabulary.
