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January 21
 
 
The Art of M.C. Escher
Escher created this surrealistic woodcut by combining several favorite design elements into a bizarre dreamscape. Escher had illustrated the insect sometime before, when an obliging mantis landed and posed upon his sketchbook.

The mantis has also become a figure used to describe metaphysical or extraterrestrial creatures in various horror myths and in purported tales of alien visitations, though the creatures' connection through Escher is almost certainly coincidental.
 
 
 
         
           
 
 
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