Street art · Barcelona
Photo: Evazquezpuig, CC BY-SA 3.0 es
A bronze swimmer floats mid-backstroke in a shallow pool,…
A bronze swimmer floats mid-backstroke in a shallow pool, half-submerged like Duchamp's readymades gone aquatic — hyperrealism meets a magician's trick, the body vanishing right where water begins.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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