Space Space Space

I have been thinking more about space.

Pictorial space, that is space depicted on a flat surface like a piece of paper or a canvas.

Basically it is a trick, an illusion achieved by mimicking phenomena.

phe·nom·e·non (fĭ-nŏm'ə-nŏn', -nən) n. pl. phe·nom·e·na (-nə)
An occurrence, circumstance, or fact that is perceptible by the senses.

Essentially all the methods of creating space in a picture boil down to recreating a scene from the view point of a human, and carefully crafting it to mimic their sense of sight. That is it.

Some ways to depict space seem amazing, because they mimic space in a way that would be amazing if it were real. So there is a subtle disconnect between space, the representation of space, the perception of space, and the perception of the representation of space. If you confuse any of these four things you will not think clearly enough to understand what you are up to when making pictorial space.

Something like a phenomenon, baby, something like a phenomenon...

There are a ton of amazing illusions on this site, click here.