Image of the Day : Escher’s Hand
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{ 16 comments… read them below or add one }
IT’S A BIG WORLD OUTSIDE
REACHING OUT
EXTENDING A HAND
FINGERS 3+2 =5 = GROWTH. JOINING HANDS TO MAKE IT A BETTER WORLD
THE GLOBE
RIGHT HAND AND LEFT HAND TOUCHING.
KNOWLEDGE = BOOKS ART
SUSPENDED IN TIME
T HE ANSWER IS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS.
This reminds me also of what you said Paulo
“I am nothing but dust and ashes.
Divide your money between the pockets.
When you come upon misery and injustice, remember the world only exists so that you can show your kindness and use the money in the right pocket.
When you are tempted to buy only thing that you have not the least need for, remember what is written on your left pocket and think twice before spending it.
In that way the material world will never suffocate the spiritual world.” P. Coelho
I carry that with me all the time.
love
I'm not very familiar with this image. I think that it depicts what we see of ourselves. It's very interesting, makes you think of who you really are.
-Angeline
Crystal ball?
Yes dear Annie, that’s true for the hand. I haven’t seen it. Thank you.
I can see the place is dark, and tidy. As if the personage did not so much in that place. tables and chairs are also neat.
The circle images a movement of resumption. And the only spectator of the scene is himself.
Bars on the window shows us that place is like a jail, from which there will be no escape, as no doors could be seen.
Maybe culture, books and paintings could confine the body to old age and solitude.
Thanks goodness, he has someone to bring him some cigars.
Nice day to all of You.
It is quite different when u look at yourself in a mirror and when u look at yourself in a glass-globe…don t u think? the perspective is quite different…it makes you look at things and youself from another point of you…
thank you, georgiana
this is great
Just a couple of thoughts on this picture…
It is almost as if it is a mirror-image, however, can we be absolutely positive that it is the artist that holds the sphere? I’m not convinced. Whoever holds the sphere is using the left hand while the person seated in the sphere has his left hand on his left knee…it is his right hand that rises up to meet with the “other’s” hand.
I remember reading somewhere about mirrored glass and two-way glass. With a mirror reflection, if you point your finger and place the tip of your fingernail directly on the glass, a small space appears between the fingernail tip and the mirrored image of it. With two-way glass, there is no space between images.
So, I wonder about this “captured” image depicted inside the sphere as the hands, albeit opposite hands, are touching with no space in-between.
I almost get a little dizzy trying to figure out all the angles within this rounded medium, LOL.
Amazing drawing! The details in the sphere showing Escher and the room he was in is drawn with such accuracy. Such imagination to think of drawing a picture like that. Try to wrap your brain around that idea!
It shows that everything is really in a circle /dimension – what we really see is just an illusion anyway ..but nice strong hand ..Blessings Tania
I think several matters are brought up with this image:
1. Your life is in your hands
2. It takes courage to see yourself in a mirror
3. There are times when we see only ourselves in the picture…
and this is sad…so, if you have the courage to see yourself in the mirror, you certainly have the courage to take your life in your hands and do something about your loneliness and open your home’s door to the world..
it’s like looking into a crystal ball.
A cool image! A bit psychological picture, the man is looking like a psychologist and the psychological question is; who is holding the ball…Do you like the game?
Love
Zahir
I’m not very familiar with this image. I think that it depicts what we see of ourselves. It’s very interesting, makes you think of who you really are.
-Angeline
A fish-eye angle. What a work within a ball…
Thank you for sharing that inner place.
Love.
It reminds me ….myself taking photos with my mobile phone…..!!
The hand with the glass-globe. The head-ego is in the middle of the picture that gives the perspective of the whole room.
I think that it teaches us the dimensions of space.
Love,
Thelma
brave new world