Art

[amanda]

I'm going into to Tokyo tomorrow to see an exhibit of M.C. Escher's work. I have long-loved his style of approaching a slightly different point of view from the norm. I hope that it was before it became fashionable to like his work, but it's hard to tell.

Escher was one my first exposures to the idea of art. My brother gave me a massive tome of his collected works when I was young (probably 12). The text was in german, but the images, of course, transcended the language boundary. And all I could see was a world created for the sake of creating it, for providing a reality that Reality did not on its own accord- truly magnificant.

Ever since, I've been in awe of such creative composers of reality. Escher is just one, but he was one of the first.