We were studying a concept called "Reversible Figure-Ground Relationship," which is a fancy way of saying Visual Illusion. The idea is that it is hard to tell which part of the image is the "figure" - or "positive" shape/space, i.e. actual object drawn - and which part is the "ground" - or "negative" shape/space, i.e. background.
You've seen these images that flip back and forth when you change your eye focusing while looking at them, like this one for example:
Which do you see? The young woman or the old lady?
In our project, the two images are faces (human or animal) and a vase. Which do you see first? Can you see both?
Kids drew their face or animal of choice on a folded piece of construction paper, cut them out, unfolded and glued the piece onto another piece of construction paper to complete the illusion.
I've always thought visual illusions were interesting and amazing.
ReplyDeleteTo be able to make them is awesome! Great job!