Fish and Frogs 1949

M.C. Escher made this monochrome print of fish and frogs, and who knows what he was thinking? Maybe Escher was feeling like the universe is a giant puzzle, and he was just trying to fit the pieces together. I can imagine him, hunched over his drawing board, obsessively carving away at the woodblock, one tiny line at a time. It’s such a meditative process, right? You get lost in the details, and the world outside just fades away. I really think that the way he plays with positive and negative space is what really makes this print sing. The fish morph into frogs, and the frogs back into fish, and it's like the whole thing is breathing, right there on the page. It reminds me of how we're all connected, and how everything is always changing. It makes me wonder what else is hidden in plain sight, waiting for us to notice. It’s all one big conversation.