Could you drive on streets painted like this?

We know a lot of people who use the face and body as their canvas, expressing the art form of wellness and beauty. For Edgar Mueller, the street is his canvas. He challenges perception with his stunning 3D urban masterpieces.

Together with up to five assistants, Mueller painted all day long from sunrise to sunset. This appeared on the East Pier in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, as part of the town’s Festival of World Cultures. He spent five days, working 12 hours a day, to create the image of the crevasse. He then persuaded passers-by to complete the illusion by pretending the gaping hole was real.

“I wanted to play with positives and negatives to encourage people to think twice about everything they see,” he said. “It was a very scary scene, but when people saw it they had great fun playing on it and pretending to fall into the earth. ‘I like to think that later, when they returned home, they might reflect more on what a frightening scenario it was and say, “Wow, that was actually pretty scary.” ‘

For more on his art, visit Edgar Mueller’s website.