Tom Beshara credits a love of M. C. Escher's optical illusions as the inspiration behind his "pirolettes," small wooden statues in which two heads appear to face off nose to nose. Carved in maple, walnut, or cherry, the nine-inch-tall sculptures' strong graphic lines evoke mini Eames stools. But their real appeal is the hidden profile of a child's face revealed in the object's negative space.
