Disorienting or Chaotic Space

Disorienting or Chaotic Space can be described as the manipulation of perspective by artists in order to project an image that appears to distort space as it is commonly known to exist. An example of this can be found below.

In the picture above, a photograph by Paul Strand from 1917 called "New York," uses shadows to produce a somewhat deceiving appearance. The shadows of a nearby structure causes viewers to actually see the structure but then it turns into a street/sidewalk with people standing on the corner. His use of the shadow distorts space and alters the viewers' perspective of what they are seeing. They go from seeing a physical structure with depth, to seeing a shadow on a flat street, to once again realizing a third dimension with the introduction of people on the corner.