2D VS. 3D

Two-dimension means lacking the characteristics of form. Three-dimension means have volume. However, sometime the different is not so clear. Last week I went to Nelson Art Gallery to see Avis C. Robinson’s collections, in those items that she collects, I found couple toy call “Various toy”. The scale is like a small cup. Those toy look like a small box because after we open the toy, we could hide something inside. However, the emphasis is on the outside of these toys, there are painting figure. When I saw them, most of them are in a plastic box; because they look flat on the surface looks like two-dimension. By the plastic box, Avis C. Robinson set three open up toys to show people how those toy looks like inside. When I stand right in front of those toys, the red and the yellow toy look so flat, but Avis set the bottom of the toy under it, the bottom of the toy look like a shot cube that from a three-dimension . Here is the conflict, when the toy is 2D then how could it connect with the 3D bottom part? This is Gestalt’s unity, this will also happen to you, my reader, when you look at the picture of the “Various toy”, the picture you holding is 2D but the toy in the picture is 3D, so is the picture of the toy 2D or 3D?