This Artist Keeps Painting Himself, Painting Himself, Painting Himself…
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
It started with a little oil on canvas. Artist Seamus Wray called it: ‘a self portrait painting myself’. The reception was positive on both reddit and Instagram.
“We need to go deeper”, an often quoted line from the film Inception, reverberated throughout the comment section on both social networks. So Seamus obliged and a series was born.
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
This type of recursive painting is known as the Droste effect and is described as:
“The Droste effect, is the effect of a picture recursively appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear, creating a loop which theoretically could go on forever, but realistically only goes on as far as the image’s quality allows. [source]
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
Bonus
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Artwork by Seamus Wray
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