I hope you get better soon. I have never found you boring.
Thank you.
*hugs*
Escher was the first artist I really imprinted on. Seeing that work up close must have been a trip.
Some of the pieces are much larger than I would have thought, some quite small, all minutely detailed. And way ahead of their time, which I had somehow never realized: he was making prints in the 1940's that look like psychedelica.
I'll see if I can find a copy of Harris Burdick.
If you have not read it, I think you'll really like it. The conceit is that each illustration comes from a different story, with only the title and a single caption to suggest what that story might be, but the cumulative effect is a Tarot-like shuffle through all sorts of different genres and moods and sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, always weird images, like channel-surfing in the Twilight Zone. You're intended to make up your own stories while or after reading. (This has even resulted in professionally published stories—with Van Allsburg's permission, I assume, Stephen King famously included a Harris Burdick story in Nightmares and Dreamscapes.) I recently gave my niece a copy and I hope she's enjoying it.
Enjoy Jayne County when you can go!
Thank you! If the museum permits, I'll try to bring back pictures.
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Thank you.
*hugs*
Escher was the first artist I really imprinted on. Seeing that work up close must have been a trip.
Some of the pieces are much larger than I would have thought, some quite small, all minutely detailed. And way ahead of their time, which I had somehow never realized: he was making prints in the 1940's that look like psychedelica.
I'll see if I can find a copy of Harris Burdick.
If you have not read it, I think you'll really like it. The conceit is that each illustration comes from a different story, with only the title and a single caption to suggest what that story might be, but the cumulative effect is a Tarot-like shuffle through all sorts of different genres and moods and sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, always weird images, like channel-surfing in the Twilight Zone. You're intended to make up your own stories while or after reading. (This has even resulted in professionally published stories—with Van Allsburg's permission, I assume, Stephen King famously included a Harris Burdick story in Nightmares and Dreamscapes.) I recently gave my niece a copy and I hope she's enjoying it.
Enjoy Jayne County when you can go!
Thank you! If the museum permits, I'll try to bring back pictures.