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'Phosphorescent Sea' (1933) by M. C. Escher

2:04 PM · May 10, 2021Twitter Web App

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Don't miss the Big Dipper in the sky . . .

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Oh, that's good

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Turn it upside down and it's clouds

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This has been one of my favourite pieces by Escher for a long time. It's in permanent exposition in The Hague, if I'm not mistaken, in

. So beautiful.

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Escher was a pupil and friend of A.C. Oudemans, onetime director of the The Hague zoo who wrote about sea serpents and the monster of Loch Ness:

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Shot at ISO 400,000 on my Sony Alpha

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Thought you'd like this!

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We all love Escher's reality-bending stuff with stairs in the ceiling and all that, but his "normal" art is jaw-droppingly beautiful.

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Escher !!