The Chalk Guy Is Back!

THE CHALK GUY IS BACK

Its hard to believe that these are drawn on flat sidewalk surface...

Great Crevase Edgar Mueller.


Mueller painted this all day long from sunrise to sunset with his five assistants. This picture 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 250 square metre image of the crevasse which viewed from the correct angle, appears to be 3D. 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."

Mueller, who has previously painted a giant waterfall in Canada, said he was inspired by the British ‘Pavement Picasso’ Julian Beever, whose dramatic but more gentle 3D street images have been featured in the Daily Mail.