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Above: What do you think of this perplexing piece of art?

YouTuber Evan Davis recently captured this bewildering footage of artist Patrick Hughes' contemporary painting Superduperspective at Birmingham Art Gallery.

It might make your eyes water but it shows off perfectly what Hughes was trying to achieve with his discovery of reverse perspective.

Born in Birmingham, the artist has continued to confound viewers with his 3D artwork, with each piece appearing to move as the viewer adjusts their own position.

Hughes’ unique interpretations of the situations around him began at the age of four, as he lay in a cupboard under the stairs of his grandparents’ house to take shelter from bombs during the Second World War.

A lasting impression was made as young Patrick gazed up at the unusual upside down staircase.

In 1963, Hughes had an epiphany at Leeds Central station while waiting for the train to London.

He said: “I noticed that the lines ahead of me came to a point, the point of infinity. I had the idea of making a silver and black set of railway lines that come to a point more quickly. I made these and exhibited them on the floor in my second London exhibition at the small Portal Gallery.

“About a year later I thought of making a sitting room in the same forced perspective, but this time the wrong way round with the back wall at the front. I made this out of wood and doll’s house wallpaper.

“Making things in perspective is taking experience as a solid, rather than an ever-changing relationship. By the process of irony, no one believes railway lines actually come to a point. One can make the point that our experiences are relative, fluid, subject to change.”

Patrick Hughes now lives and works in London and is widely recognised as one of the major successors of contemporary British art. His works are part of many public collections including The British Library, Tate Gallery (London), Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow), Deutsche Bibliothek (Frankfurt), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and Denver Art Museum.

His work is also currently on display in Op Art-Kinetics-Light at the Würth Museum, Germany until March 28 2016 and ‘Superduperspective’ can be seen at Birmingham Art Gallery.

For more information, visit reverspective.com