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Illusory Illusion: Jarett Kobek's HOE #999

, Jarett Kobek, Book Works 2010

Each part of this novel is ecological but combines in a way that deliberately violates perception of its own nature. Disjecta from early youth is recombined in the imagination but remains, like a combination of horn and horse resulting in a unicorn, a possible contravention rather than the Humean mountain without valleys. All youthful writers growing older hanker to make some use of their youthful dregs. Rimbaud’s devastating question, ‘What is on the other side of despair?’, gets in this writing an answer that shreds the impertinence of art. Kobek combines elements that with one eye closed and from just a single designated perspective he has an illusory illusory object, a double bluff like a 3-D model of a Penrose triangle.

The Belgian mathematician Mathieu Hamaekers creates three dimensional models of impossible triangles which seen from a particular angle create the illusion that an observer is actually seeing the object implied by a two dimensional representation. However it is only from a single perspective that this illusion persists. Walking round such an object reveals it to be an object of strange convoluted curves. Kokichi Sugihara from the Computer Science department at Tokyo University provides PDF documents for making your own D.I.Y. impossible figures here . Diego Uribe in 1986 has analysed an infinite class of impossible figures into jigsaw puzzles of 32 equilateral triangles with special bar elements offers. Software enabling you to build these impossible objects using this analysis is offered free on-line. The point is that they are not actual realisations of impossible figures.

There is a moment in the Christopher Nolan / DiCaprio vehicle Inception when Arthur seems to show Ariadne how to install a Penrose Staircase into a dream. However what is actually installed is an illusory illusion. The Penrose Staircase is a staircase that makes 49 degree turns yet form a continuous loop. On it a person would ascend or descend forever and yet never get any higher or lower.