NEW WORK PREVIEW
Spring 2013
HOMAGE TO M. C. ESCHER, # 2
It's a little hard to see and harder still to explain, but basically, this box is a cube, with three of its faces presenting the same tableau of stairs, arches and a corner tower, but each is oriented in a different direction. Hence there are three ways that the box could be "up". However, it sits on its corner in a stand, so that all three directions can be read as up. The other three faces of the cube are the "down" sides with just one layer of arches. One of these faces can be slid off and an inner cube/box removed. There is also a compartment in the bottom of each of the corner towers, so four compartments in all. Below is an image that shows the three faces a little more clearly - the one to the right is facing up, whereas in the one to the left is sideways. Make sense? Anyway, thinking about M.C.Escher was the starting point.
The image on the left gives a better sense of the three faces of the box. It shows the box sitting so that one of the faces - the one to the right - is oriented facing up while the face to the left is oriented sideways. The image on the right shows the box from the underside, with one of the underfaces removed to reveal the inner compartment.