Welcome to a world of chaos and unreality.
(Waterfall, 1961)
As a kid, I used to sit and stare for hours at M.C. Escher prints I had plastered all over my walls. If I was sent to my room because I was in trouble, no worries. I'd get lost for hours in worlds that would become my own personal haven.
(Double Planetoid 1949)
Up was down. Down was up. Stairways seemed to lead to a never ending no where. Much like Lewis Carroll's, Through the Looking Glass, nothing is as it seems here. Images seem to go on to infinity. Often times you ponder what the meaning to the pieces might be.
(House of Stairs 1951)
While studying architecture, Escher decided to switch to drawing, creating works that seem not only to defy gravity, but also perplex all rationality of perception.
(Relativity 1953)
The impossibility of such worlds becomes mesmerizing and hypnotic as one tries to visualize and understand the wanderings of his works. Such perfection of masterly works is mind-boggling.
(Balcony 1945)
Though he had no formal training in mathematics, his repeating geometric patterns, known as tessellations, became favorites of scientists and mathematicians.
(Ascending and Descending, 1960)
Seen in his works, are near perfect and almost impossible mathematical shapes. Escher managed to accomplish something that still perplexes many to this day.
(Bond of Union, 1956)
