--- title: "Metamorphic — where perception and physics entwine" description: "Jonty Hurwitz's Metamorphic collection explores where perception and physics entwine, transforming materials into sculptures that challenge our understanding of form and reality through optical illusion." lang: en json-ld: | [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "legalName": "Mathematics of Self Ltd.", "alternateName": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "logo": "https://sentient.art/sentient-art-logo-dark.png", "founder": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yifat Davidoff" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#website", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "name": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "description": "Sculpture editions and unique artworks by Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff — where art meets science.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org" } } ] }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "WebPage", "name": "Loading…", "description": "Loading gallery", "url": "https://sentient.art/gallery/metamorphic", "isPartOf": { "@type": "WebSite", "name": "Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "url": "https://sentient.art" } }, { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#org", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "legalName": "Mathematics of Self Ltd.", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "logo": "https://wdrxdfvnnrdahkzifhxs.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/blog-assets/site-settings/logo/1779723800851-m6hr4e-Original-Sentient-Logo-Black.png", "founder": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonty Hurwitz" }, { "@type": "Person", "name": "Yifat Davidoff" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sentient.art/#website", "url": "https://sentient.art/", "name": "Official Site: Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff", "description": "Art born from science. 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At close range, the observer perceives local elements—often fragmented shapes, brushstrokes, or discrete objects—while at greater viewing distances these elements spatially integrate into a different, higher-order image. This effect arises from principles of visual perception and multiscale processing in the human visual system. The phenomenon exploits the fact that the visual cortex processes images hierarchically: fine spatial frequencies dominate near-field perception, whereas coarse spatial frequencies dominate long-distance perception. Artists design the image so that high-frequency components (small, detailed elements) form one set of recognizable structures, while low-frequency components—the aggregate luminance and color distribution produced when those elements are spatially averaged—encode a second image. As the observer steps back, optical blur and reduced retinal resolution effectively filter out high-frequency detail, allowing the low-frequency pattern to emerge. From a computational perspective, metamorphic artworks can be described as dual-scale images whose Fourier spectra are intentionally structured so that different frequency bands correspond to distinct semantic interpretations. The technique is related to hybrid images studied in vision science, where combining low-pass and high-pass filtered images produces distance-dependent perception. Thus, metamorphic art functions as a perceptual demonstration of scale-dependent visual encoding, revealing how the brain integrates local features into global representations. By embedding multiple visual interpretations within a single image, the artist leverages the physics of optics and the neurobiology of perception to produce a controlled transformation in what the viewer perceives. [](https://www.facebook.com/ontyhurwitzart)[](https://www.instagram.com/jontyhurwitzart/)[](https://wa.me/447469152288)