Text from the e-mail I received November 30, 2009:
More drawings from Justin Beever. This guy continues to amaze people with
his sidewalk 3D chalk drawings. Hard to believe that these are drawn on a FLAT
sidewalk surface.
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Another Street Artist: Edgar Mueller |
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| Great Crevasse, by Edgar Mueller. Hard work: Together with up to
five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. The
picture appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the
town's Festival of World Cultures. |
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| He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the 250
square metre image of the crevasse, which, viewed from the correct angle,
appears to be 3D. He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by
pretending the gaping hole was real. "I wanted to play with positives and
negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see," he
said. "It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun
playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. "I like to think that
later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening
scenario it was and say, 'Wow, that was actually pretty scary.'"
Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada, said he was
inspired by the British 'Pavement Picasso' Julian Beever, whose dramatic but
more gentle 3D street images have featured in the Daily Mail. |
