
Checkered Past by Diana Sainz

by Diana Raquel Sainz
Title
Checkered Past by Diana Sainz
Artist
Diana Raquel Sainz
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Photograph - Photography - Digital Photography
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A staircase down to the restrooms of a restaurant in Amsterdam, LOVE THE DAM!
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We all have a "Checkered Past", some of us just have more colors on the board than others! ~drs
A restaurant in Amsterdam, a stair case to the lower level, colorful, bright, busy and chaotic, GREAT TIME!
Staircase designed by M.C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər] ( listen);[1] 17 June 1898 � 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.
Early in his career he drew inspiration from nature, making studies of insects, landscapes, and plants such as lichens, all of which he reused as details in his artworks. He travelled in Italy and Spain, sketching buildings, townscapes, architecture and the tilings of the Alhambra and La Mezquita, Cordoba, and became steadily more interested in their mathematical structure.
His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher considered that he had no mathematical ability, he both interacted with the practising mathematicians George P�lya, Roger Penrose, and Harold Coxeter, read mathematical papers by these authors and by the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own mathematical research into tessellation.
Escher's art became popular, both among scientists and mathematicians, and in popular culture. Apart from being used in a variety of technical papers, his work has appeared on the covers of many books and albums. He featured as one of the major inspirations of Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book G�del, Escher, Bach.
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Comments (17)

Jim Williams
Designed by Escher. Took a minute to get my perspective right. l, f, WHAT?!
Diana Raquel Sainz replied:
lol... Thank you... it is a set of stairs heading down to the bathrooms in Amsterdam. :)

Barbie Corbett-Newmin
I just found this in the Booster Club discussion of The 200 Club and am happy to see it! It makes me want to go in!lf

Walter Holland
Shades of M. C. Escher! Very well done, Diana. I will have to make room on the homepage to feature this one!