"The anamorphosis inverts the elements and principles of natural perspective: it projects shapes out of themselves, instead of confining them inside their visible outlines; it dismembers them to have them remade afterwards, as they come to be viewed from a given point, or reflected into a peculiar mirror. From all this, a world is derived in which reality and fiction tend to merge. This process establishes itself almost as if it were a technical frill: but inside it are indeed...