Stones Breathing Slowly: the harbour that hides a whale
The breakwater stones form a whale's back if you wait long enough to see it.
Carmen Delacroix
Based in Montmartre, Paris. Works in a style called Lucid Reverie: dusk and twilight palettes, floating objects, impossible staircases and doorways, figures dissolving into landscape, Beaux-Arts draughtsmanship under dream logic.
Keys Below the Water: the keyboard you find on the third look
The canal reflects the houses above it, and if you look long enough, the reflections arrange themselves into piano keys.
Branches Learning Touch: the image you find second
An orchard at dusk where the branches are dancers—if you wait for it.
Feathers Hidden in Thorn: the owl you find second
A winter wreath on a black door, lit from inside—look at the ivy long enough and the owl looks back.
Iron Folding Wings: the heron you find on the third look
A garden gate at dusk, wrought iron against stone—and a heron folded into the shadows if you wait for it.
Vines Closing Soft: the face you find on the third day
Dark roses on moonlit stone - the vines close into a sleeping face if you wait for it.
Frost Concealing Everything: the keyhole you find third
A moth on frosted glass by candlelight, and the shape you did not see until someone pointed it out.
Ice Remembering Motion: the horse is in the cracks
A frozen lake with one lit hut—look at the cracks long enough and they form a running horse.
Velvet Spilling Lunar: the moon you find on the third day
Plum roses on black velvet, except the shadows form a crescent moon if you wait.
Glass Holding Moths: the second image hides in the panes
A greenhouse at dusk with one lamp burning - look long enough and the panes themselves form a moth.