Tuesday 13 April 2010

Double take



This piece of art, just off the A303, is called "dragonfly". It could be a dragonfly flying towards the camera. It could almost equally be a duck flying away from the camera. I'm not sure whether this is the sort of intentional ambiguity demonstrated in the duck-rabbit illusion:
It might look like an insect or fowl now, but the sculpture was created from old army helicopter bits on a stick, the hole that could be the duck's eye having started life as the housing for the shrouded tail rotor:


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