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If you look closely there’s a chance you’ll be able to see it…
If anything it would likely be the soft colors that give away the fact that this is actually a painting rather than a photo, but you’d be hard pressed to find anyone not initially fooled by this highly detailed work.
And that’s not even the most impressive part.
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— はづき (@hazuki_cheke) https://twitter.com/hazuki_cheke/status/672369647442759680">2015, 12月 3According to the blurb that was also tweeted, this painting was done by Hisashi Fukushima, a 46-year-old Saitama man who has autism. Ever since he was young he took an interest in trains, railroads, and crossings and began to paint them.
Although it is a highly detailed painting to begin with, the most amazing thing is that it was said to have been done entirely from memory. Fukushima has the ability to remember every detail of a scene by looking at it just once.
With that fact in mind, take another look at the picture and just how many details he put into it. The relative sizes and number of floors on each building in the background; the bars on each window of the beige buildings; all of the numbers and signage around the signals; the intricate lattice work on the steel frames along the elevated track in the top right.
Then again, he might have just faked those details. How would we know otherwise…right? So I decided to try and track down where this scene was.
Full article continued at source: RocketNews24
Source: Twitter/@hazuki_cheke (Japanese)
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