Psychology of Consciousness — sub session
"I have never attempted to depict anything mystic; what some people claim to be mysterious is nothing more than a conscious or unconscious deceit! I have played a lot of tricks, and I have had a fine old time expressing concepts in visual terms, with no other aim than to find out ways of putting them on to paper … all I am doing in my prints is to offer a report of my discoveries.”
— M.C. Escher in The Magic Mirror of M.C. Escher
Tobias' reproduction of M.C. Escher's, Eye
M.C. Escher – Eye, 1946 Mezzotint
A fascinating statement given that so many of his print allow hindsight interpretation (hineininterpretieren). Brave kids, where on their path to discover the act of seeing We have studied the drawings/prints of M.C. Escher, looked at a grid, shape, proportion, the stretching or rotating of all the above, we looked at Escher’s tessellations, discussed the 2/3D reality. We arrived at the Eye (mezzotint,1946) and that is where the boys really wanted to deep dive into. It turned to be an experience of line, shade and trace. 'What do I really see?', was the question and more. How can it be achieved. Using F to H to 6B pencils G and T have been sent on a path of their own discoveries.
Story or Still Life?
Title Theseus and the Minotaur (Second Version)
Date created modeled: 1843; first cast of second version: 1857
We ended the session studying of a piece of obsidian and a chess piece. In itself they are realistic objects taken from a familiar context. As we combine them, what can they change into? I asked the boys if the composition is a still life or if it can tell a story. We used the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur as one example of this composition allowing to interpret it as a part of a story. This was a second attempt today to exercise the hindsight interpretation!