At first glance , István Orosz ’s illustrations front like ordinary , if vaguely cartoonish , scenes of medieval life . But arrest in each scene isa picture of a human skull , if only you have it off how to look .
Orosz frequently places with visual illusions in his oeuvre , and his Ship of Fools serial publication , based on Albrecht Dürer ’s engraving from Sebastian Brant ’s sarcasm of the same name , play with framing and perspective to make a perceptual illusion , draw your brain to switch between the depicted scenes and the skulls .
If you confabulate the Orosz ’s online gallery , you ’ll at first see just the thumbnail , row upon row of skulls . As you see the details in the larger paradigm , however , it ’s more hard to hold onto your perceptual experience of one prototype or the other .
Ship of Fools[István Orosz viaOddity Central ]
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