Influences
The man was genuis, pure and simple. He was very self-critical and felt that no one shared his interest in tesselation with recognizable objects.
The pictures of the three windows is neat in showing three prespectives of the same landscape at the same time. Seal was inspired to use a computer generated version of the archways in his music video of Killer. Seal also wears some cool fractal armor.
Which makes me wonder what Escher would have made of fractals. He stated that he preferred order to chaos, but fractals have definate pattern to them.
This one is Castrovalva, which inspired an episode of Doctor Who of all things! They set an episode in this town (see the second image below).
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