A winter swimmer, wearing a Santa Claus hat to celebrate the upcoming Christmas, reacts as he plays on a frozen lake at a park in Shenyang, Liaoning province, December 22, 2014. The characters on the hat read: “Shenyang Winter Swimming”. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Guests enjoy a dinner at the table “Santa in the sky” lifted by a crane and elevated at 50 meters in the air and decorated to match the appearance of a “Santa Sleigh”, as part as the Christmas festivities in Brussels, Belgium, November 25, 2016. (Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters)

It has become tradition in Wigan in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom for residents to go out on the town in fancy dress for Boxing Day on Sunday, December 26, 2021. Boxing Day is a holiday celebrated after Christmas Day, occurring on the second day of Christmastide. (Photo by Joel Goodman/London News Pictures)

Adorable 1-year-old micro pig George from Gower Fresh Christmas Tree's Farm in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom on June 26, 2023 enjoys a quiet evening stroll through the beautiful lavender field where he lives. (Photo by Joann Randles/Cover Images)

Battersea Power Station Ice Rink in London, United Kingdom on November 13, 2022. Running until 8th Jan. 2023, a large outdoor ice-rink outside the power station and next to the riverside brings in festive Christmas fun with vivid illumination. (Photo by Guy Corbishley/Alamy Live News)

Tommy Liberto, known as Mr. Christmas Tree, crosses Seventh Avenue while visiting New York for the tenth year from Bel Air, Md., Wednesday, December 4, 2024. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)

Born in 1958 in Kiev, Ukraine, artist Mark Khaisman studied Art and Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute in Russia. Now living in Philadelphia, USA, Khaisman uses rolls of brown packaging tape to create incredible works of art. Mark characterizes his work as ‘pictorial illusions formed by light and shadow’. The three key elements are: translucent packing tape, clear acrylic or film panels, and light. By superimposing layers of packaging tape Mark can ‘play on degrees of opacity that produces transparencies highlighted by the color, shading, and embossment’.

A shop assistant creates a window display in a Next store in central London December 30, 2014. British clothing retailer Next's sales rose 2.9 percent in the run up to Christmas mostly due to online and catalogue purchases, hitting the upper end of its predictions and it said full-year profit would rise by about 11.5 percent. (Photo by Neil Hall/Reuters)