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"THE WORLD OF M.C.ESCHER" Abradale Press, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, New York, 1988 edition
Copyright @ 1971 in the Netherlands by Meulenhoff International, Amsterdam
Maurits Cornelis Escher born June 17, 1898 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. died 1972
Cat. 1968 Catalogue of the M.C.Escher Exhibition, Gemeentemuseum, the Hague, 1968
| 47Kb Cat 1968. no 75a "Study of Regular Division of Plane with Reptiles" 1939, Pencil, india ink, watercolour |
| 69Kb Cat 1968. no. 86 "Other World" 1947, Wood engraving |
| 42Kb Cat 1968. no. 87 "Up and Down" 1947, Wood engraving |
| 52Kb Cat 1968. no. 98 "Curl-up" 1951, Lithograph |
| 52kb Cat 1968. no. 99 "House of Stairs I" 1951, Lithograph |
| 63Kb Cat 1968. no. 100 "Two Intersecting Planes" 1952, Woodcut |
| 40Kb Cat 1968. no. 103 "Gravity" 1952, Lithograph |
| 50Kb Cat 1968. no. 106 "Relativity" 1953, Lithograph |
| 54Kb Cat 1968. no. 106 "Relativity" 1953, Lithograph |
| 29Kb Cat 1968. no. 107 "Spirals" 1953, Wood engraving |
| 55Kb Cat 1968. no. 120 "Belvedere" 1958, Lithograph |
| 45Kb Cat 1968. no. 128 "Moebius Strip I" 1961, Wood engraving |
| 49Kb Cat 1968. no. 129 "Waterfall" 1961, Lithograph |
| 63Kb Cat 1968. no. 130 "Moebius Strip II" 1963, Wood engraving |
| 42Kb Cat 1968. no. 132a "knots" 1966, Pencil |
The movie "Labyrinth" (trademark, Copyright @ 1986 by Henson Associates, Inc.) which I saw the "making off" on TV and requested that I go and see it in the theater, so myself and my sister ended up watching it (was only about nine years old at the time) and not only did it initilised a profound interest in David Bowey's music by my sister (Think she has his complete works on CD by now) In myself, not only was the glass ball juggling and goblin puppets regarded as cool, but also the buildings.
Fast forward about 10 years, studying architecture (sort of happened (and even got a degree), good at art and not wanting to waste appreciation of science and maths, also didn't want to write too many essays) and I get introduced to formZ (copyright @ auto.des.sys) by virtue of taking an interest in the computerlab and playing with "model shop" (a long time ago kiddies) so after devouring the manuel durring lunch (at least reading it) on the mighty centris workstation (at least when i could get on to it) with an unbelivable 20mb of ram, I modeled relativity (this was in 1994, not that high tech) This was the first of what became a series of representing some of Escher's dawings in virtual space (in particular I was tired of seeing "Other World" done so badly (if you ever fell inclined to model it, look very closly at the proportions, and then make everything the correct proportions for the camera viewpoint, this requires some fudging and is something I notice in a lot of Escher's drawings, as it is made to look good from the camera view, like in "House of stairs" and "Up and Down", counting the number of tiles around the drawing and through certain parts of it, the distances don't add up, not that i wave a problem with this, durring architecture I was always more interested in the proportions of done in drawings and using that to adjust placements onto various grids.
So with FormZ and Strata SudioPro, and then even the PowerPC chips (so I was in a mac world, and currently most of my work is done in lightwave on a PC, but could almost get away with it on my amiga) and either durring the holidays, or to avoid working on assignments I would sit down and model another Escher drawing, geting quite proficent with FormZ all the while.
Unfortunatly for the last few years I have been working in the computer game industry, and thus spare time projects have been put on hold indefinatly for the most part ("knots" being and exception where it was a chance to execise my begining of learning to program, but then again I have a heap of small jobs before I get arround to finishing it)
Also severly not happy with my version of "Belveder", but lost the fixed version of it (my backup system is rather chaotic)
Not certain of which one I intend to do next, though getting to the stage when I want to travel around a bit more and start my
own artistic series.