When I wad a kid , I had these nightmares with stairs that are going the wrong way and as I was walkin on them they were never ending . I had a feeling of despair and complete anxiety .
This was my first idea about Flatpack. When I chose distopia as a theme, that was the first thing that popped into my head and I was told by my uni tutor to research Escher’s Stairs .
But before these stairs , Lionel Penrose and his son created the concept of an impossible object. It is a variation of the Penrose triangle , a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which they make four 90 degrees turns as they ascend or descent forming a continuous loop . Pretty much exactly what my dreams were .
According to Wikipedia , Escher , in the 1950 , had no idea whatsoever about these impossible figures . Penrose had been introduced to Escher’s work at the International Congress of Mathematicians and he was “absolutely spellbound” by Escher’s work and on his journey back to England , he decided to produce something “impossible” on his own.
“The “continuous staircase” was first presented in an article that the Penroses wrote in 1959, based on the so-called “triangle of Penrose” published by Roger Penrose in the British Journal of Psychology in 1958.[1] M.C. Escher then discovered the Penrose stairs in the following year and made his now famous lithograph Klimmen en dalen (Ascending and Descending) in March 1960. Penrose and Escher were informed of each other’s work that same year.[2] Escher developed the theme further in his print Waterval (Waterfall), which appeared in 1961.
In their original article the Penroses noted that “each part of the structure is acceptable as representing a flight of steps but the connexions are such that the picture, as a whole, is inconsistent: the steps continually descend in a clockwise direction.”[3] ” -Wikipedia
Escherian Stairwell
“The Escherian Stairwell is a viral video based on the Penrose stairs illusion. The video, filmed at Rochester Institute of Technology by Michael Lacanilao, was edited to create a seemingly cyclic stairwell such that if someone walks in either direction, they will end up where they started.[8] The video claims that the stairwell, whose name evokes M.C. Escher’s impossible objects, was built in the nineteen-sixties by the fictitious architect Rafael Nelson Aboganda.[9] The video has been considered an Internet hoax, as individuals have travelled to Rochester Institute of Technology to view the staircase.”[9][10] -Wikipedia
Fascinated about all this information and the fact that I had dreams about these things when I was a child ( something that after finding out how complex the concept really is , I have tried to sketck some impossible shapes based on the golden ratio .
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