Willow Swaneveld, The Eyes of Mae West (July theme: Eyes)

Captured on 35mm film, this haunting image of Dalí’s Mae West Room blurs the line between art and illusion. Viewed from a single point, the furniture morphs into a face lips, nose, hair, all sculpted from objects in space. The grainy texture, soft focus, and golden hue of the film heighten the dreamlike surrealism, echoing Dalí’s world where perception is everything and nothing is quite as it seems. A fleeting moment, immortalized in celluloid, where a room becomes a face, and the viewer becomes a part of the art.

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