Discipline, design & Escher
Monday, March 02, 2009Ok. What has never happened on this blog is about to. What's the harm in creating some needless suspense :) The announcement: I am going to post DAILY. (Vineeta, take a deep breath, for courage.) This is a month-long project I have undertaken so I can prove to myself that I can be disciplined. So this month of March, each day on 'artnlight' there will be something new. Each month till date I promised myself 'next month' I will post more often. New year came and went, nothing changed, feb came & went, nothing changed. I kept thinking work load will reduce, I will post, I will go on vacation & be free & then post. Nothing happened. So this is it. I'm not waiting anymore. There is enough work in my life in terms of office work load & personal committments, but I have decided. I need to know I can do this. Wish me luck guys .
Discipline is repetitive, it is doing the same thing again and again. Its a pattern. Pattern can be beautiful & even quirky. Here's a quick look at M.C. Escher, the world's best example of quirk, genius & pattern all in one.


On the uniformly gray surface of a strip of paper that is being unrolled, a simultaneous development in form and contrast is taking place. Triangles, at first scarcely visible, change into more complicated figures, whilst the colour contrast between them increases. In the middle they are transformed into white and black birds, and from there fly off into the world as independent creatures. And so the strip of paper on which they were drawn disappears.
This print has been used is physics, geology, chemistry, and in psychology for the study of visual perception. In the picture a number of visual elements unite into a simple visual representation, but separately each forms a point of departure for the elucidation of a theory in one of these disciplines.
Waterfall
Encounter
Faces.
I found this very fascinating. Look carefully. I love the many different faces coming together.
And do check out World of Escher where we get kinds of Escher cool maal(stuff).
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I found this very fascinating. Look carefully. I love the many different faces coming together.
And do check out World of Escher where we get kinds of Escher cool maal(stuff).



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