Rue Jankowski in Le Mans, France, used to be just another dead-end street. Now, it's where you go to chase a white rabbit straight into a glowing, striped portal. Because apparently, that's where we are now.
This isn't some digital trickery. It's a six-story, three-building mural called "Rabbit Hole" that makes an entire city block look like it's been punched through to another dimension. From the right angle, a flat wall transforms into a dizzying 3D tunnel, shimmering with light.
Parisian street artist Seth, a guest at Le Mans' Plein Champ urban art festival in 2022, is the mastermind behind the visual trick. He employed anamorphic perspective, a fancy way of saying he painted something flat that looks impossibly deep. And inside that impossible depth? A small child, mid-chase, following a white rabbit into the light. It's a classic Seth move, reflecting the childhood wonder and escape he often weaves into his art worldwide.
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Start Your News Detox"Rabbit Hole" didn't stay a local secret for long. Later that year, it landed on Street Art Cities' list of the top 100 murals globally. Then it soared into the top ten, then the top five, at one point even hitting second place worldwide. It finished fifth overall, making it the only French entry to crack the global top ten. Let that sink in.
Le Mans has its fair share of impressive street art, but this particular rabbit hole has become a mandatory detour for visitors and a magnet for cameras. Because who wouldn't want to snap a photo of a street that forgot it was a street?
