Entries with tag: ‘escher’
My good friend Fly sent me to a website recently which showcased advanced and beautiful nanofabrication. Basically, very tiny, microscopic sculptures/scenes that are photographed in black and white through a microscope. The following link will take you to a page with plenty of images, one of which was bound to grab my attention, the M. C. Escher award.
The scene above is an actual photograph of a tiny chamber at 25 times magnification, taken in a mirror formed by electrons. You’ll have to read the explanation to make more sense of it…
There are doubtless millions of people that are fascinated by the technical prowess and exacting graphic skill of one, Maurits Cornelis Escher. His imagination captured mine at a very early age, probably the first visual art that actually grabbed my deficient attention. I developed an early interest in mathematics, no doubt assisted by the many wonderful prints that Maurits would labour over tirelessly.