Ascending and Descending |
M. C. Escher, captain of the fourth and the fifth dimensions, master of the woodcut as medium of a voyage into "fearful symmetry." The notion of a fantatsic space reaches its apogee in Escher's compelling evocations of impossible geometries, dizzying perspectives and places that we can't get to from here. When up is down, and inside is out, where is here? Escher's fantastic engravings seem the perfect spatial accompaniment to the enigmas of Borges, his worlds within worlds, his times out of time. |
