42"x33" oil and stone on canvas Video at: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-4854030945877218625 Formation challenges the observer with images that confuse the perception of what is real. Inspired by the 14th century concept of reverse (Byzantine) perspective, where the observer is given the omniscient viewpoint of the vanishing point, I have used our perceptual preference for convex objects to create holographic-like portraits that move along with the observer. This form of perspective was studied by Ernst Mach and is commonly associated with the "reversible open book" and the "hollow mask" illusion. The observer, even knowing the source of the illusion, nevertheless experiences an instinctive desire to see a convex object. This illusion is reinforced as the observer moves. The parallax (used in astronomy to derive distances in stars and that we use to understand the shape of objects) is reversed in this exhibit and so we are fooled once again and the portrait faces move in response to our motion. Each of the 9 portraits is selected to emphasize different aspects of the illusion and our perception of the human head. My desire in art is to create effects that mimic the actual in nature rather than reproduce photographic quality images or emotional states. My art reflects the belief that our senses reveal only a shadow of what we truly experience. The term "Actualism art" is used to distinguish this art form from the emotionally based "expressionism" trend. Reality is more than just the sum our emotional impressions and the sense detection of an external scene. The realism art discipline attempts to capture the latter and expressionism the former. My version of Actualist art allows that the observer can interpret the "actual" and create works that capture the essence of the observed in a fundamental way.