Three Worlds: M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher's work is awesome. I could look at it all day. It's wild, it is surrealism but his figures seem realistic...until you take a closer look. He doesn't rely on bright colors or bold strokes--his work is intricate, exact, math-based, and he does crazy, wonderful things with perspective instead.
I chose this piece because I thought it was pretty, and there is a lot of truth in it. It does show three worlds--the one above the water, on the surface, and beneath the surface. (This goes SO well with this year's Cherry & White theme: "beneath the surface"!) And it briefly reminds me of the poem "How to Paint a Waterlily" by Ted Hughes, because the poem describes the world above and beneath a pond (but it's kind of gross because it talks about insects). We read it in English in the beginning of the year.
...I just love this! The way the trees are reflected in the water, and the fallen leaves are on top of the water, and so, on top of the reflection. It's not like you couldn't actually see this scene for real, if you were standing in the right position. It's really hard to explain why I like it. I just do. It's different from a lot of his other stuff: impossible architecture, explorations of infinity, and tessellations of animals.