Drive the streets of London and you may run into an exposed underground cave, with a vast lake of eerie, glowing liquid and stalactites hanging from underneath the sidewalk. But when people walk into this cave they seem to stay on the plane of the street. The realistic-looking "cave" is actually an optical illusion, painted by 3D street artist Edgar Mueller of Germany. This vast work, which stretches across the entire width of a promenade in West India Quay in the Docklands of London, is one of many projects Mueller and other 3D street artists are painting throughout Europe. Other Mueller works include a lava burst splitting down the residential street of a small German town, a waterfall in Slovenia and a crevasse from the Ice Age. Mueller's works and background on street painting are on display at www.metanamorph.com.
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