31 New Optical Illusions Created Entirely By Hand On This Korean Artist’s Face

There’s something slightly disorienting about looking at Dain Yoon’s work for the first time. Not because it’s complicated, but because your brain keeps trying to “fix” what it sees. An eye appears where it shouldn’t, a face folds into itself, and for a second you think it’s edited, but it isn’t. That’s the hook. She builds everything by hand, directly on her own face, turning something as familiar as a human expression into something unstable.

Growing up in South Korea’s highly competitive art education system, she spent years doing what many artists quietly resent — copying, repeating, perfecting. She’s talked about how mechanical it felt at times, like becoming a machine trained to reproduce reality. But somewhere in that discipline, she gained total control over how things should look, which is exactly why she can now take them apart so convincingly.

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