Personally, I like symmetrical shapes. I love for things to be uniform. From an early age, I was always fascinated with building things; more specifically, designing houses. I understand that these feelings for symmetry greatly hinder my ability to comprehend some of the things that others consider art. Which, if fine with me. Like the old adage says, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Just because I do not define something ‘beautiful’, does not mean that someone else does not. It is the beauty of free will.

I took the above images from here.

The first one always amazes me, as does the second one, but I am specifically talking about the first one. Flat circles on a page, can create this. Well, it is all about the shape and the value, but still …

This one, just plain out shocks me. It is bizarre that our eyes, as powerful as they are, process this 2D graphic as though it is 3D. Funny, in a way, that it is so very powerful, but so easily fooled.

Nick