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M.V. Baks
Alter modernism - where technology meets nature
Glass Perspective
A study of distortion and clarity.
Two glass spheres bend a bamboo forest into new shapes, blurring the line between what is real and what is merely perceived.
A quiet reflection on how fragile—and strange—our perspective can be.
Glass Perspective plays with the tension between clarity and distortion.
Two glass spheres hover in the composition, capturing fragments of a bamboo forest and returning them in warped, unfamiliar forms. What is reflected remains recognizable, yet never fully true — as if the image slips into another dimension the moment you look at it.
The drawing balances illusion and realism.
White pencil and charcoal carve out the spheres with delicate precision, while the deep black background pushes the reflections forward, creating the sense of a lens suspended in darkness. The bamboo — a symbol of resilience and quiet strength — seems to breathe between the spheres, bending with the distortions yet never breaking.
Glass Perspective invites a calm moment of contemplation:
a place where the boundary between perception and reality becomes uncertain,
and where the viewer must decide what they are actually seeing —
the world outside the sphere, or the reflection within it.
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Tattoo of Glass Perspective
A close friend saw Glass Perspective and asked me to translate its atmosphere into a tattoo.
This is a detail of the final design — a fragment shaped from light, distortion and reflection.
When the tattoo is completed, I’ll share the final piece here too.
