It?s 3 o?clock on a Wednesday, and I?m somewhere between gathering my thoughts and savoring an ASMR-like reaction my mind is having from what I just saw.
Escher.
nendo.
Melbourne.
The best art exhibit I?ve ever seen.
Or more formally, the Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds exhibit housed inside the NGV in Melbourne, Australia – a world class city I?ve already become enamored with in my few days here.

The exhibit is a retrospective on M.C. Escher – the Dutch artist popularized by his paradoxical drawings (many of which are actually lithographs – meaning they were drawn on limestone with a wax pencil, and then etched with an acid for printing). Navigating through the various works showcased, you?ll see that Escher possessed a mind-boggling mastery of various printmaking techniques (wood cuts, mezzotints, and lithographs).
If you love Escher, or if you love art for that matter, the exhibit as a whole is emotion inducing. Looking around the room I saw patrons with a frozen look of wonder, curiosity, and delight. For me, the feelings that wrapped around my mind (like the tessellations in his work) had me both laughing at the absurdity of talent on display and holding my jaw in befuddlement of how human hands created these works.

The exhibit is like walking into a documentary and for brief moments you feel like you are inside Escher?s head – following his explorations in early childhood, to his development years, to an egotistical (his own words) mas...