Illusion

Trompe-l'oiel incorporates elaborate techniques artists use to create an illusion of reality. It means literally to "trick the eye".

Photographers have been manipulating images for decades. With contemporary technology they are only limited to what their minds can conceive. Deception has skyrocketed because of the availability of tools to make nothing into something. Great beauty as well as the reprehensible are altered beyond recognition.
How can we know what is reality?
Sincere, genuine, unaffected, truth.
Looking beyond the facade is sometimes impossible.
Sometimes we do get a glimpse, a tiny peek and we adjust our thoughts.
On the rarest of occasions our paradigm is altered when we realize that what we always believed was authentic is actually a brilliant illusion.
Disbelief, anger, bitterness, forgiveness, grace, mercy.
We choose our path to resolution.
Luke 7:47