#escher

[tomoleary]

M. C. Escher (1898-1972) Dream (1935)

Black Light poster after M. C. Escher’s Dream (1935)

“Escher wasn’t too disturbed about the reprints as he could have been. When an American friend advised him to call in a lawyer, he wrote: ‘Why should I be displeased if youngsters are happy with awfully coloured red things on their walls? I feel more or less flattered and I am glad that they can afford them.’” Source

[artificial-art-gallery]

[ffart2022uwu]

This Sequence👇 x Escher

[eyeofthenewt1]

Curse of Strahd

An anniversary poster I made for our CoS group! Happy 3 years darlings, may we not succumb to The Horrors <3

[ We are running the She Is The Ancient module with a healthy sprinkling of even more homebrew on top]

GM: Pauli

Petrichor: me

Orren: @realm-hopper

Bo’Rah @betaadmin

Victoro: @wehavekookiess

[deinzyanid]

please, know, my actions are not motivated only by envy

[enchantedbook]

"Forest Interior with Animals", (1931) by M. C. Escher

From the book 'De vreeselijke avonturen van Scholastica' by Jan Walch, a story about a witch in the Dutch town of Oudewater.

[rkherman]

Variation on Waterfall. Extended it a bit and made it landscape orientation for the calendar.

[teambyler]

The "One Way" sign to Mike's closet is next to THE ESCHER DRAWING (Byler talk)

Just saw this great post "It's All Relative" by @eeriesilkworm breaking down the placement of M. C. Escher's famous lithograph "Relativity" right underneath Mike's infamous "One Way" sign:

@eeriesilkworm discusses more of the symbolism of triangles and LGBT people and the concept of relativity to support Mike's internal homophobia arc.

However, what's also striking to me is the clear juxtaposition of ideas here:

A "One Way" sign pointing at a closet

A CONFUSING drawing. Gravity itself points in DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. The VERY OPPOSITE of "ONE WAY."

In one sense, they CONTRADICT each other, reflecting Mike undergoing an internal turmoil and indicating that not all is as it seems with him.

The Escher drawing reflects Mike's disorientation of figuring out, well, his sexual orientation. AND it's next to a BIG GIGANTIC SIGN trying to stick to one way.

In a second sense, you can say the drawing depicts how one can go "one way," but end up going nowhere and instead walk around in a circle. You might always be walking forward, but you're not getting anywhere.

Even as you go one way and seem to tell yourself you're moving forward, you are still TRAPPED.

The Mike-is-in-the-closet symbolism is so blatant here that it's more than "subtext." The obvious meanings of these symbols might as well read as TEXT.

These are not random placements; they scream meaning and intentionality. And as far as I can tell they're only compatible with a reading that Mike at this point is in a closet, and walking a path that is a dead-end.

-teambyler

EDIT: And @5qu1rr3l points out that Mike's room has a "curve right" road sign in this same shot. Which reinforces the pathway into a closet, traveling in a circle, and yes, not walking straight. Plus, there is another famous M.C. Escher drawing of him drawing himself looking into a globe, which suggests having a distorted subjective view of yourself (i.e., not seeing yourself as you really are).