Maryva Mayo is yet another Italian artist, and one who is (so far as I know) new to Brooklyn is Watching; she has placed three works this week.
Prospettive cangianti is fascinating in a number of ways, which you can fully appreciate only by coming to look at the work in-world. First, it looks radically different depending on the time of day; the textures of the work are semi-transparent and interact with the light and sky in interesting ways. (The first picture was taken at sunset; the second is at midnight.) Second, it has glow effects that change radically with small changes of camera position and angle; I believe that it deliberately exploits the problems with the ordering of alpha (transparent and semi-transparent) textures in the Second Life viewer. (I reviewed it with viewer 1.20.15, the current release version, and tried it on two different computers with different graphic cards, one ATI and one NVidia, and the effect works on both.)
Although the effect appears to be done with layers, the effect is not three-dimensional from any normal viewing distance because the layers are very close together. (You can see the layering by coming in VERY close.) Instead, it seems to be a canvas that magically changes depending on how you look at it. Kind of like those lenticular picture toys that change to a different image as you tilt them, but this one makes far more interesting and unpredictable changes than the toys ever did.
