Author(s): M C Escher

Gift

Until the age of forty, M. C. Escher traveled a great deal, feeling his insatiable eys with constantly shifting Mediterranean landscapes. Then he returned to Holland, put away his luggage, and set out on a series of internal odysseys. Maps of other worlds, his prints ceased to represent a tangible reality and instead suggested the results of taking up strange tools to buld in accordance with Escherian laws on distant planets. This calendar's selections are Symmetry Drawing 72, Three Spheres II, Day and Night, Reptiles, Belvedere, Phosporescent Sea, Symmetry, Drawing 103, Fish and Scales, Balcony, Symmetry Drawing 42, Three Worlds and Hand with Reflecting Sphere.