Cubic space division 1953

M.C. Escher made this print called ‘Cubic Space Division’ without a date, using lithography. Imagine Escher, maybe with a slightly furrowed brow, totally absorbed, working on this intricate dance of cubes and lines. It's like he's building a world, one painstaking mark at a time, pushing the limits of what a simple black line can do. You know, I can really identify with this piece, I see in it the kind of questions I also ask myself when painting. How can the flatness of a surface be made to do something else? The genius of Escher is that he makes you work. Are you looking into the artwork or out from within it? What’s so amazing about this piece is how he orchestrates the gray shades to make you feel the weight and volume of each shape. Escher takes the mundane and turns it into a mind-bending puzzle.