M.C. Escher is well known for his surreal, reality-warping engravings -- two hands drawing each other, infinite staircases, fish changing into birds and back again. Never an art-world celebrity, he was nonetheless beloved by everyone from counterculture youth to mystics and scientists. As a result, his work has inspired plenty of crazy ideas about alternative realities, mysticism, and mental emancipation. And he's been a great and humble sport about them all. Once, when a woman called him, sayin...
M.C. Escher is well known for his surreal, reality-warping engravings -- two hands drawing each other, infinite staircases, fish changing into birds and back again. Never an art-world celebrity, he was nonetheless beloved by everyone from counterculture youth to mystics and scientists. As a result, his work has inspired plenty of crazy ideas about alternative realities, mysticism, and mental emancipation. And he's been a great and humble sport about them all. Once, when a woman called him, sayin...
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