I did that actually! Wait, lemme see if I took a pic of that. Edit: never mind, I forgot my charger on my trip in 2010 so my camera battery was dead at that time. But I did wonder why the drawing looked so familiar, and it's because of that climb. Really cemented the magic of that place... I remember finding it incredibly hard to comprehend the sheer size of the St. Peter.
Thanks for reminding me to go to the Escher Museum some day! I quite like Escher, partly because we share a birthplace. But I hadn't seen that one yet.
Ah yes, I was about to say the same thing. It's all the way in the Hague unfortunately.
It's an hour and a half for me at least, so I'll have to plan it a bit more in advance. But yeah, time to visit it soon!
A few days ago, my girlfriend told me that she hates Escher's iconic, gravitationally jarring stairway piece. I asked her why, and she said that it just keeps her too busy and unsettled. I thought that was obscenely cute, but we're deeply in love, so I think I'm kinda biased. "Thoughtful or GTFO" gets the fuck out
I've always loved Escher because of the way his art messes with your mind. Just recently, because of a book Devac suggested to me, I learned some interesting new facts about his work: the Circle Limit series are representations of hyperbolic space. So that leaves me wondering what other mathematical gems are hidden in art that I would never guess just by looking at it.
rd95 and I got to see an exhibit of Dürer's work, I do recall seeing Melencholia I with the compass in it but was not familiar enough with the other tools to make the connection. With knitting and crochet I am familiar with the math connection, it's how you make patterns from the most basic knitted seed stitch to the crochet coral reef gonna have to go down some rabbit holes on some of those links when I get some time. Thanks!