One of the oldest tricks in the book, photography-wise at any rate, is to momentarily confound the viewer with an image that is devoid of context or scale. Like this one, for example, or like the aerial perspective photographs of agricultural fields made by Mario Giacomelli back in the 1980s. Those images really surprised me when I first saw them in a magazine, back when there were magazines. Later, when I found out that he actually drew in some the trees on the negative using a felt-tip pen, I knew I had discovered a kindred spirit. By the way, the image above is of a hand-stamp used to print patterns on fabric.
