Perspective

This is a drawing by M.C. Escher. Many know his work of the hands drawing each other. His work messes with your brain a bit and you can't help staring. This piece was my first 'studied' experience of Escher. You can stare at it for hours trying to fit all the stairs and direction together and yet the perspective on it is perfect.

I am terrible with perspective. I have bought books promising to teach me perspective in 3 easy steps which turned out to be a cruel lie. Recently, I was reading my artist's magazine, they did a whole article on the fifth perspective. This was quite disheartening. Now I know there are 5 different kinds and I don't get ANY of them! There is the isometric, curvilinear, and my favorite, the perverse perspective. They all seems perverse to me.

Ask any kid in art class which lesson wore out his eraser fastest and he will undoubtedly say perspective. With the x-axis horizon line and the y-axis height indicator and the famous VP, vanishing point. IS THIS MATH OR ART?

Off I go to the studio for my work day. I know there will be something that will require my brain to think along the lines of perspective. Here's hoping it's the 'one point' kind, not the perverse.