
Maze Of Life (Retired)
Learning about M.C. Escher when Auntie brought out a plastic map with a hand drawing another hand. A circle of which was drawing which?" Have you seen the mind-bending, reality-twisting, perspective-skewing drawings and woodcuts of Escher? Some of his most famous works include the pair of hands drawing each other, an endless waterfall that appears to flow uphill, or reptiles that crawl out of the page and then back into a drawing again. One famous Escher creation, Relativity, shows human figures ascending and descending stairs at impossible angles to one another, throwing the viewer's equilibrium into utter chaos and confusing all sense of right-side-up and upside down. Escher himself had a hard time find his how way in life. He wasn't the best student, eventually leaving school. Wandering many different paths, never finding fulfillment. It was still difficult for him to earn enough selling lithographs to provide for a family as a graphic artist. This Escher art was itself ins