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Building the sun from Igualada, in the Anoia region. This is the impression conveyed by these photographs captured for La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
The play of perspective and optical effect creates these images in which it gives the impression as if the construction cranes were manufacturing the king star.
An optical illusion leads us to perceive reality in various ways. It may be physiological in nature, associated with the effects of excessive stimulation in the eyes or brain (brightness, color, movement, etc.).
Or also of a cognitive nature, in which our knowledge of the world intervenes (such as Rubin's vase in which we perceive two faces from the side or a vase indistinctly).
Many artists have taken advantage of optical illusions to give their works a magical appearance, depth, ambiguity and contrasts. Photography does not escape these types of effects, as is clear in this report.
