Trompe d'Oeil Triumphant

This image is a painting. It's on a building in downtown Marion, Ohio. And it fools the veritable eye with its wonderfully intricate, three-dimension-seeming, Trompe d'Oeily illusions. Here, take a look for yourself.

Take a closer look, at, say, this part of the mural, with the young lady sitting on the globe hanging, gravity free, in an archway. It's just on the serious side of totally Oaqui! It's not just an artistic triumph. The artist's name is Eric Grohe. It's something you should know, if only to add one more person to your list of Defenders of the Playful.

It is a victory of no small significance. There are a lot of people who don't like to have their eyes played with, even for a second. Especially those who have strayed too long and too far from the Playful Path, if you know what I mean. They just can't seem to find delight in it all, in their eyes getting played with like that, their very vision, their understanding of what they are actually looking at, redefined. It says alot aboout the artist, but also something about Marion and whatever mysterious civic forces were engaged to pay for the whole thing.