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We rarely bat an eye when reading headlines that talk of murder, corruption or worse. Our world actually makes sense this way—everything in its place, the same things happening over and over, revolutions of mundanity. We can accept these things, but our brain categorizes objects as “unusual” when we see odd proportions, sizes, lengths, and distances—anything that physically stands out.

While the nature of what is visually acceptable or unacceptable is not static, it can end up feeling stagnate at times.  Clearly a little bored with the idea of traditional proportions, sculptural artist Hans van Meeuwen turns social convention on its head in his installation “The Civilized World” at Storefront Ten Eyck.