Perhaps I was inspired to post this here, because of the opening post, "An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments".
When I was in Graduate School for Art (painting).....I had had a show of my current work then (1987 ?).
In the art gallery, I had a
name/title I created for my art show high up on the wall (my art below), it read......."
The Museum of Shortsightedness".
I had paintings based on 19th century industrial line drawings, of rather silly and out-dated ways of accomplishing common tasks...like
opening a corked liquor flask with a hammer, or a person's teeth (based on real research).
My main painting was painted directly on the wall...in a mini mural style.
When you stood at the entrance of the gallery doors, and looked at the first wall...the black & white image painted on the wall, was
of an "old west" traveling salesman, selling what we might consider "snake oil"....the old cliché.
....but upon walking into the space, you realized the image has been greatly foreshortened.....and the distortion becomes very apparent when walking further into the space, looking at it straight on.......
Bunk and distortion of claims....has been my interest for quite some time.
(unfortunately, this is the only image I have of that show)