The Penrose staircase is a continuous staircase, a 2D depiction of a staircase in which the stairs makes four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet forming a continuous loop.
image from wikipedia
This inspired an artist M.C Escher to make a lithograph which would be famously known as
Ascending and Descending
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I was more inspired by his earlier work; Relativity which lacked the looping aspect. More mysterious than logic it seems.
225 images in total. But was relatively easy to film a moving subject and stagnant background.
In fact there is definitely many more ways to exploit the composition of staircases x M.C Escher such as placing different sequences side by side and in different directions such that the perspective made sense. But because my perspective was inaccurate it was a tedious and non aesthetic processor piecing the work together on a single screen.
The Penrose illusion wasn’t so easily replicated. I used the same flight of stairs to make interesting angles and an endless loop if you will.
Here, go Ham.
Love the red handrails and pipes in the video. Making the stairways very visually “out of this world” even in the ordinary.