Cover for Science et Vie Junior

The editor’s insistence that I remove the word “ILLUSION” left no support for the bucket beam. To remove the beam and bucket would have weakened the illusion. Publication deadlines meant I had to find a more or less overnight solution that didn’t require re-working the whole image and which carried an element of illusion of its own. The final design, whilst still intriguing, is to my mind much less elegant.