Observers have speculated it may result from electrical activity in the Venusian atmosphere, but it could be illusory, resulting from the physiological effect of observing a bright, crescent-shaped object.
But other photographers have taken the set itself as their subject, capturing not only the illusory world created by film but also the atmosphere of a production: a horse carried across a Texas ranch; the upturned face of Marilyn powdered through a car window.
Scumbled, smeared or otherwise brushed on, gestures of painterly abstraction add spacey atmosphere, but at the same time these marks contradict the illusory extension of space, drawing the eye to the glossy, finely striated surfaces.
The narrator of "Dancing at Lughnasa" drifts back to his most vivid recollection of late summer 1936 when, he says, "In that memory atmosphere is more real than incident and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory".
Quick solutions are illusory.
The casualness is illusory.
This distinction is illusory.
Civilizations are illusory.
The difference is illusory.
