monoceros blogsPeiming (recently married and presently honeymooning in Maldives - I'm envious) and Lim Jia - piano and trumpet players respectively - introduced me to M.C. Escher when they gave me a large book filled with his work for my birthday. Musicians and artful creations, is it any wonder it was those two girls who made Escher known to me?
Later, I picked up a book called G?del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, which I've yet to read since it's stuck in one of the gazillion boxes I shipped home from Michigan but have yet to unpack. Noob (since I'm mentioning everyone's vocation, I might as well add that he's an engineer) suggested the book, and since I liked the premise, I made an impulse purchase. According to him and Amazon.com, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning book uses references to music, mathematics, and art to explore heavy topics like meaning and form, pattern, number theory, self-reference, and strange loops. Giddy stuff.
I was reminded of the book yesterday when I spotted this picture tacked to my former boss's (an editor/publishing manager - such a variety of careers in this post!) cubicle wall. It's a cheeky illustration from AlienlovesPredator.com - a cool online strip with Alien (he's called Abe; his mom calls him Abraham) and Predator (he's Preston) as roommates in New York.
Here's the original work -
Escher is a gem! one of my favourites is the one in which flying geese and swimming fish are just a few strokes of geometrical lines apart...
"The mind's eye" by the same author is more philosophical... and good food for thought too! it has a cool picture by Magritte on its cover!
Magritte is cool too...
Posted by: tiggie at January 14, 2006 11:26 AMhey tigs, hmm, I don't know that one or maybe I've seen it before but can't place it right now. Will check out Magritte! =)
Posted by: monoceros at January 16, 2006 9:47 PM