house of stairs..

  THE HOUSE OF STAIRS by M.C Escher, a lithograph printed first time in November 1952.
It depicts the interior of a tall structure crisscrossed with stairs and doorways at paradoxical angles.
The basic structure of the stairs and platforms is modeled on the "impossible triangle".

 

  RELATIVITY. It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings.

 

The structure has three stairways, and each stairway can be used by people who belong to two different gravity sources. This creates interesting phenomena, such as in the top stairway, where two inhabitants use the same stairway in the same direction and on the same side, but each using a different face of each step; thus, one descends the stairway as the other climbs it, even while moving in the same direction nearly side-by-side. In the other stairways, inhabitants are depicted as climbing the stairways upside-down, but based on their own gravity source, they are climbing normally.


I guess it represents a journey that we all take, that we are trying to accomplish, with different results..


Also at the stairs of Southbank we take a journey, we are anticipating the top of them to eagerly see whats on top of them..