In the series PERSPE Gustav Willeit creates a parallel universe, showing an environment, which appears real but was actually invented. The viewer is able to recognize the natural origin of the picture, remaining in doubt though, hung in a space between reality and fantasy. The human element, which is often to see in Willeit’s work, is never located randomly but has the task of giving the observer an element in which to recognize himself, creating a balance between truth and falsehood. The theme of the mirror and the double has always fascinated man and the pictures from the series PERSPE are wildly suggestive and possess a sense of mystery, existing somewhere within the border of illusion and reality.
Alexa Mutschlechner
[...] Sorry to have missed Marc Latham’s new Folding Mirror poem. The eMORFES site is showcasing such great greenygrey folding mirror images that I must have got complacent, thinking I had a steady supply of relevant art. Anyway, the eMORFES site has delivered again with Perspe: Photography by Gustav Willeit. [...]
Magnificent!!
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really wonderful !
Wow. WOW. WOW! Thanks for sharing these beautiful pictures!
Quite amazing to visit these beautiful images – especially just after seeing Life of Pi- a similar play on reflection, truth, metaphor and fantasy. Sadly the film blandly spells out a probable reality, rather than allowing the viewer (as the book allowed the reader) to come to a realisation that we had (perhaps?) been immersed in and seduced by an imagined truth.
Amazing! Simply amazing! Thank you!
I’m caught in the illusions and love the journey…
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Some great folding mirror images, and description of the strong draw the theme has on many people through history.
Great folding mirror images, and some greenygrey too! Will reblog some on both sites. Thanks.
Magestic and strangely otherworldly.