This somewhat stretched image of two long hallways opening onto a landscape is a photograph of a three dimensional form. The faint images that appear to be at the ends of the hallways are actually on the tops of two truncated pyramids. The construction elicits a bistable percept when viewed in person. Once the viewer interprets the form as receding corridors (rather than protruding pyramids), small movements of the head and body lead to the eerie impression that the ends of the hallways are moving. The construction photographed here (51x26x12cm, folded paper) was inspired by the 3D paintings of Patrick Hughes. [Wyeth Bair, May 2000]

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Two views (anterior and posterior) of a sculpture of the brain of M. cynomolgus done from life.
(terra cotta, 13x10x9cm, 2x life-size). [Wyeth Bair, December, 2000]





Stone sculpture of a macaque brain (lateral view, African wonder stone, 27x20x18cm).