Bill asks us to notice how different this image looks from a distance than it does up close. It’s a difference so striking (at least to him) that more than a few times he’s thought it was perhaps drawn by someone else. Fleming says it’s not an effect he designed or in any way planned. it just happened. “I’m guessing it has to do with how we typically read “figure/ground” relationships and how this drawing seems to offer somewhat ambiguous cues in that regard,” Fleming speculates. .