Something quite complicated has happened to our demonstrator, to the left. He's a picture in a picture, but the image of him is not on a flat surface, but instead on a surface that has just the same three-dimensional shape as he would have in the real world. He is therefore hollow, but we only know that because I've cut rings out him.
Both Mauritz Escher and Rene Magritte developed the idea. Heads in their pictures appeared not as if on rings sawn from a hollow sculpture, as to the left, but as if onto continuous spiral ribbons. See Escher's prints Rind and Bond of Union on: http://www.mcescher.com, click on "gallery" and then on Recognition and Success.
The genies are also reduced to ribbons of this kind by the consultant's experiment in comic book picture 22, whilst the flat-cat consultant himself de-laminates from his mounting board and becomes mere lines vanishing into the teapot.
To draw your own ribbon heads, start with the whole heads, and then try out different overlays of ribbon, to work out which will leave the heads still looking most recognisable.
& Comic Book Picture 22, Genie Therapy
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Something quite complicated has happened to our demonstrator, to the left. He's a picture in a picture, but the image of him is not on a flat surface, but instead on a surface that has just the same three-dimensional shape as he would have in the real world. He is therefore hollow, but we only know that because I've cut rings out him.
Both Mauritz Escher and Rene Magritte developed the idea. Heads in their pictures appeared not as if on rings sawn from a hollow sculpture, as to the left, but as if onto continuous spiral ribbons. See Escher's prints Rind and Bond of Union on: http://www.mcescher.com, click on "gallery" and then on Recognition and Success.
The genies are also reduced to ribbons of this kind by the consultant's experiment in comic book picture 22, whilst the flat-cat consultant himself de-laminates from his mounting board and becomes mere lines vanishing into the teapot.
To draw your own ribbon heads, start with the whole heads, and then try out different overlays of ribbon, to work out which will leave the heads still looking most recognisable.