Tower of Babel,  Woodcut, 24 1/2 x 15 1/4, M.C. Esher, 1928.

"Signs form a language,
but not the one you think you know."

". . . the changes of language 
a traveler in distant lands must face . . . 
lost . . . 
I followed the alphabetical order 
of vanished alphabets, 
up and down halls, stairs, bridges."

"I realized I had to free myself 
from the images which in the past 
had announced to me the things I sought:
only then would I succeed in understanding . . ."


EXIT

(c) 1998 Janice Hitchcock