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Like millions of others I recently saw the movie Inception<\/a> which has a host of references<\/a> to M C Escher, including staircases which go nowhere and a city (Paris I think) which folds into itself. This began a large circle of tangents (?!) in my mind. First to my own poem about M C Escher:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Home by Escher<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \n having a domicile designed by<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Escher was a social advantage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n at first-<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n clamouring journos, paparazzi,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n feature articles in<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Modern Architecture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n The novelty\u2019s worn off.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n in the new millenium<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Staircases are a tad pass\u00e9 \u2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n you forget whether you\u2019re<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n upstairs or downstairs<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n and walking upside-down\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n hardly practical with a<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n martini in hand.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n The last straw when<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n floor tiles began transforming<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n to geese and flying south\u2026<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n from micromacro 2006<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u00a9 rob walker<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When we were in Tsuwano<\/a>, Japan in 2008 we stumbled on a small but quite comprehensive museum dedicated to the works of ukiyo-e<\/em> (woodblock print artist) Katsushita Hokusai (1760 \u2013 1849.) Hokusai visited Europe before the Meiji Restoration. Later his work was to influence Monet amongst others. So apparently even in the closed-to-the-outside-world of Shogunate Japan<\/p>\n it wasn\u2019t possible to stem the flow of ideas.<\/p>\n The Great Wave Off Kanagawa,<\/em><\/p>\n Japan Ukiyo-e Museum<\/a><\/em>, out of Matsumoto.<\/em><\/p>\n .<\/p>\n And Escher is still inspiring artists and planting ideas in humanity\u2019s mind in the new millennium.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like millions of others I recently saw the movie Inception which has a host of references to M C Escher, including staircases which go nowhere and a city (Paris I think) which folds into itself. This began a large circle … Continue reading ![\"pineinmistjpg\"](\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pineinmistjpg-225x300.jpg\" "\\"pineinmistjpg\\"")
It was here that I learned that Hokusai studied the mathematical basis of his art as seen in his manga<\/em> (artist\u2019s sketchbook) of Escheresque geometric constructions of birds, fishes and studies of waves which culminated in his famous Great Wave off Kanagawa from the 36 Views of Fuji-san.
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