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What you are seeing is not a trick of photoshop, but instead a work of art by Felice Varini, called "Cercle et suite d'éclats" in the town of Vercorin, Switzerland. Ultimately, the entire project is an optical illusion, that when viewed from certain angles, converges with a quite surreal effect.
As impressive an undertaking as this project was, that which I am most amazed is the support by so many locals. I cannot imagine readily agreeing to let an artist paint part of a circle across my roof - given the assurance that it'll look really neat when all put together!
One could only dream of future projects that could be developed if people were so willing to allow for artistic endeavors. I mean think about it, a local artist could paint all of the roofs of a town to converge into an image when flown above by helicopter. Or maybe cut all the grass in the town in a specific pattern to produce a specific shape. What if we were to build our towns and cities not as a group of individuals, yet instead as a representation of a culminating whole?Yet in this argument I find quite the irony. In such artistic endeavor, in such acts of creativity, we would resultantly need the conformity of many, many others.
Regardless, that which I like most about this artistic undertaking, is that is so well represents an act of camaraderie. Sure a single artist designed it, but it was with a widely held support that the final breathtaking effect was produced.
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