Today is Escher's birthday

As soon as I wake up (usually at about 5 or 5:30 in the morning), I have the
habit of switching on and listening to the NPR (Natl Public Radio, people in
India and abroad may listen to this on the internet). There is a segment in
it called the Daily Almanac, hosted by the incomparable Garrison Keillor. He,
in five minutes, gives the day's significant events in the field of arts
and at the end he reads a poem. I heard that today (June 17) is the birthday of
the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1888 - 1972). Escher is well known
for bridging the fields of mathematics and arts. He started with woodcuts and
today he perhaps may be considered as the father of the tesselation drawings.
However he was drawn into this field after a visit to Alhambra (read my earlier
blog). Somebody was inquiring about tesselations recently. The simple answer
is - study Escher, again and again. Like the rangOlis, it is the principles
of symmetry and packing that attracted me to this field. Here is one to Escher!

Here are one or two urls on Escher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher
http://www.mcescher.com/
http://www.mcescher.net/

Regards! - mOhana