M.C. Escher’s Braided Visions
The Posthuman Legacy of a Popular Artist
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15 min readDec 16, 2023
We trust artists to create worlds for us. The painter and the graphic artist will use tricks of illusion to create a virtual three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional plane.
These worlds — even if they are fantastical — have a sufficient degree of realism to allow us to suspend our sense of disbelief, to use our…