13 positive illusions from Jamie Harkins (16 photos)

Jamie Harkins is a New Zealand artist. With the help of fellow artists Lucia Lupf, David Rendu and Constanza Nightingale, he creates enormous sand art on local beaches. When viewed from certain angles, they appear to literally grow out of the sand.





Jamie Harkins is an artist and musician working from his studio in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand. He is best known for his surreal landscapes, but it is his 3D beach art that has brought him attention both locally and online.



This technique is known as anamorphosis - a technique in which works are created in such a way that as a result of optical displacement, a certain form, initially inaccessible to perception, is folded into an easily readable image. The image itself is distorted, but if you look at it from a certain point of view, a 3D effect is achieved on a 2D surface.

Harkins first watched other people doing similar things on the beaches. But they were always geometric, flat shapes like a regular pattern. So he and his colleagues decided to go 3D. And they appreciated the impermanence of the work, which disappears at the end of the day with the tide, and also opened it up to the world.

1. Staircase to the ocean



2. Let's have fun!



3. The Opportunity to Touch History



4. Reflections on the Transience of Being



5. Soaring castle



6. Seize the day

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7. Balance

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8. I hold it!



9. Mesmerizing Heights



10. Reflections Before the Tide



11. Let's Fly!



12. The musician is resting



13. Illusion on the sand