Jean-Claude Rigaud
Optical Illusion, 1984
Cor-Ten steel, painted
Brownsville Station
NW 27th Avenue and NW 54th Street

Haitian-born Rigaud created this undulating, spiraling sculpture to be viewed and appreciated from many different perspectives.  Using a red spiral and three white circular forms, the artist produced an optical and spatial illusion that evolves with the viewer’s changing perspective.  While Optical Illusion appears to be a simple red spiral with three white forms when seen from either side, the three white circular forms create a target-like illusion of one large disc within a red ring when viewed from either end.

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