Part Two:
The Mannerist-Inspired
Photographs
Part Two:
Homage to
M. C. Escher
And Robert Lutz's film:
M.C. Escher ~ Journey To Infinity
and Homage to
Art Historian Waldemar Januszczak's three part video:
"MANNERISM"
Art's Wildest Movement
(1520-1590)
The Mannerist-Inspired
Photographs
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Note: The images in this project's Part One & Part II were made or selected from my
large archive of by inkjet printed images in response to my having seen
the M.C. Escher film and the three Mannerism videos.
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#17 Symmetrical Photograph 21x21"
"The Man that FELL . . .
off a ladder into the starry sky"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#54 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Illuminated still life inside a shadow"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#23 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Shooting hoops alone at the neighborhood school playground"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#71 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Two Stones thinking about each other"
"A Bus Driver Encounters His Double in a Costa Rica Tourist Stop"
After I took this picture I heard a God-awful scream coming from one
After I took this picture I heard a God-awful scream coming from one
of the sleeping quarters. It was a woman's scream; and when we
all ran to see what was happening, she pointed toward a large
snake that had coiled up inside her room next to the door.
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#40 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Sea Lions swimming in the light on their stomachs, sides, & on their backs"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#62 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Frozen Fingers pointing toward cracks in the iced-over meadow pond"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#8 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Fishing Poles & lines suspended over circling waters"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#9 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Dogs running up & down and upside-down on the sand dunes "
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#10 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Shadow Truck with eight metal-rimed tires"
Homage to Escher N#15 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Children at play Reaching-For & Holding-Up The Big Ball"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#14 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Man covering his face with one hand; his other hand is
placed upon the soaped store window with the spider-like shadows"

Homage Escher & Mannerism N#150 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Four-faced Apparition"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#30 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Bird Shadows on Venation Blinds with Light Streaks,
and a window in the background revealing blue sky"
"Mythic Birds & Cats"
The source image is from my project In the Woods
"Dark Luminous Still Life : Basket sitting above a stainless steel reflection of light"
"Blue Tiles & Shadows of People Pacing Back & Forth, Back & Forth"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#55 Symmetrical Abstract Photograph 18x18"
"Shadow Tourists Wandering Among the Vatican Columns"
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#70 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Pompeii Figures Under Glass with reflections of light above"
I have been suspending things is black space since 2001 and the concept then , and that still
remains for me today, is that black space represents silence, both in music and in the
most sacred of all spaces, the Human Heart. What we have witnessed
in Minnesota by Federal agents---by orders from of our present
Administration is . . . deeply Heart-Breaking. And Trump
abuses all those he can to break their Hearts in the USA
to gain respect from Putin.
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#56 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"An Abusive Father & young Son in a room illuminated with florescent lights."
Homage Escher & Mannerism N#20 Two Fold Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"The Screaming Ghost Climate Change Image of the Hudson River"
Part Three:
Images from my Archive:
Note: The images below were selected from my 2023-26 Inkjet Print Archive
based on my response to the film MC Escher, and the three Mannerism videos.
Homage Escher & Mannerism P#146 Symmetrical Photograph 21x21"
"Deck tables & chairs, sunlight & shadows"
Homage Escher & Mannerism P#49 Symmetrical Photograph 15x15"
"Double conjoined Chandeliers with dimmed lights"
Homage Escher & Mannerism P#50 Symmetrical Photograph 18x18"
"Bedside Lamp and two large lampshade shadows"
"A Ceramic Bowl, opening, revealing its interior light"
"How tall are these four water falls?"
(A miniature water garden in the Alhambra, in Granada, Spain)
There are four repeated waterfall images in this four-fold symmetrical photograph.
As I remember it, the miniature falls was about12-18" high.
"Fish Feeding Time, pond at the Alcazar of Seville" ("green eyes" symm. version)
(Visit my project Crystalline Paradise: Moorish Spain)
"Quirky* photo of a Motel window view of the pool area"
Visit my Quirky Photographs project
*Quirky: oddball, cryptic, mysterious; images one can't identify or cant understand why or
how the photograph was taken or made; images that may be approaching abstraction.
. . . though perhaps in some transformed version.
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