MCE Day & Night

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This work takes its inspiration from “Day and Night” (Maurits Cornelis Escher), a woodcut from 1938. “MCE Day & Night” incorporates elements from Escher’s work without replicating the original transformations (vertical: viewed from bottom to top, the agricultural fields transform into birds; horizontal: from left to right, the transition from day to night occurs, and through the arrangement of white birds flying to the right, black birds emerge in the negative spaces, flying to the left).

Escher’s transforming landscape is dissolved and becomes a kind of abstract acrylic painting in which the lower half of the picture is the mirror image of the upper half and the white and black color scheme represents the transition from day to night. The birds do not arise from themselves, but are arranged in such a way that they create the impression of a butterfly whose wingbeat can change everything.

“MCE Day And Night” is part of the project “Approaches To MCE.”