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By Scott EymanpWith his lean, hawk-nosed profile, piercing eyes, shock of white hair and well-trimmed beard, M.C. Escher looked just like Ezra Pound. And like Pound, there are plenty of classical references to be found beneath the surface of an art that moved inexorably toward modernism and abstraction. /ppPart puzzle-maker, part fabulist architect, part anatomist of his own imagination, Escher began by looking backward as well as forward in his art. But, as is evident in a retrospective of his work now at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, he ended up out of his time, the lithographic equivalent of a Möbius strip — no beginning, no end, just eternity./ppMaurits Cornelis Escher — his friends called him “Mauk” — was Dutch. He was born in 1898, died in 1972. One wife, three sons. Outwardly he lived a bourgeois existence, although he was hemmed in by financial pressures until the 1960s, when his work became popular, for, he believed, all the wrong reasons./ppFor instance: In 1969, Escher received a letter from Mick Jagger that began “Dear Maurits.” Jagger wanted to use an Escher image for the cover of a Rolling Stones album. Escher wrote back refusing to license his work, and closed with, “By the way, please tell Mr. Jagger I am no Maurits to him, but Very Sincerely, M.C. Escher.” /ppThe expansive collection of his work on view at the museum encompasses all phases of Escher’s life, from early Italian landscapes to his somewhat unsettling interest in ominous insects that can’t help but suggest biblical plagues, to the optically complex work of his later years that helped inspire op art, a novelty that happily ran its course./ppCumulatively, they give the viewer a taste of how a serious man does serious work, even if the world doesn’t always take it seriously. (Head shops sold bootlegged blacklight versions of some of Escher’s work, which are showcased in a room at the museum that might have been better left unopened; the lurid colors vulgarize Escher’s finely graded black and white, and inevitably recall bad acid trips.) /ppWhat the exhibit shows is that Escher could always draw — forms rather than figures, in which he seems to have had no interest — but his earlier work is stark, stripped down compared with the arabesque flourishes he employed later. Always present is superb craftsmanship; Escher had the craft of the artisan as well as the vision of an artist./ppThe exhibit begins with works like San Gimagnano and San Pietro, pleasing woodcuts of Italian hill towns with occasional grace notes — the trees in the former piece swirl like van Gogh’s stars. By 1935 and Inside St. Peter’s, Escher has begun his trademark play with perspective, sharpening and foreshortening for vertiginous effect. /ppAround the same time he did a series of woodcuts titled Nocturnal Rome, where there’s nary a cat on the streets, let alone a person. By studiously removing the human element from nature and buildings, Escher is nudging his way toward stylization. /ppSurrealism enters the picture with Dream, also from 1935, which unsettlingly depicts a sleeping bishop — it could be a medieval tomb, or it could be an actual person — with a huge locust perched on top of him. You can take it as brutal anti-clericalism, or an image from a very ugly dream. /ppAs Escher aged, he moved steadily from observations of objective reality toward the reproduction of images that existed only in his head. The transition pieces are a series of reversed images, reflections in mirrors or glass balls that are mostly physical impossibilities. /ppBy 1951, Escher was becoming increasingly surreal, as in House of Stairs, which depicts a conglomeration of stairs covered with slug-like newts climbing up and down — a disturbing image out of a latter-day horror film. All of these images are riveting and bizarre, but not particularly self-conscious — more like surreal reportage. /ppIn his later portion of his life, Escher’s work gravitated toward geometric designs that grew out of his fascination with the Moorish art of the Alhambra and Seville. Escher saw that the Spanish designs, which for religious reasons avoided depiction of human or animal forms, could be extended to suggest infinity, and much of his later work was occupied with this obsessively painstaking but slightly dry inquiry. /ppFor me, Escher reaches his height with Drawing Hands from 1948, the famous image of disembodied hands drawing each other. (I wonder if he ever saw the German silent film Hands of Orlac, the story of a pair of severed hands that take on a life of their own, or the American variants Mad Love or The Beast With Five Fingers?) Outside of the purity of the idea of the innate nature of the creative impulse, the hands are rendered with a delicacy that Durer would have envied. /ppEscher was not a capacious artist, but rather an intensely focused, limited one; nevertheless, in many ways he was prophetic, a Kafka of the image, who foresaw the altered perceptions of the late 20th century. His reality became ours./p

Dinner tonight with friends will be risotto, so to follow with the Italian theme, I have put together a lightweight antipasto dish to serve with freshly baked pita chips. This lemony delight is vegan, chock full of vitamins and supports the Mediterranean diet. In other words, I am trying to lower the carb load and [...]

I am thinking of starting a business, with myself as the sole proprietor. I do not need a business license as I will be running the business entirely under my first and last name. Will my earnings, that will come to less than 30,000 CAD per year, be subject to income tax? Or will these earnings under Canada BC laws be tax free?

I got 2 day business shipping.

I am poor, I’m not popular where Im from but alot of people know me or know of me- so I dont think I’d have a fanbase. I’ve gained a couple pounds because of meds, but I think I can get the weight down. I just feel like I wont be accepted by people, but I am so creative. I have great ideas and I want to influence the culture. Any advice?

Hey everyone, I recently found out that I was pregnant - my husband went on a business trip for 2 weeks and when he gets back I really want to get back into having sex with him, we’re catholic so we can’t use a condom, my friend told me not to have sex with him while pregnant because you can end having twins, but I don’t want to have more kids! Can you get pregnant twice or is what my friend told me just lies? Please!!! I need an honest answer!!

And if I bought them the same year is it the same? I have a sales tax permit for a sole proprietorship and it is cash-based, not accrual.

This will be my first time reporting any business information. Most of the stuff I sold is my own personal stuff and I don’t even know when or how much I bought it for. Is it acceptable to use some sort of guide to estimate the original value? If I can do that can I file as a hobby and not a business for all of those relevant items because I wasn’t intending to make a profit but don’t want to claim a loss either.

There were a couple things I did intend to sell for profit though but that’s all.

Also since I’m registered as cash-based am I still required to report an inventory? When I registered it it said that very small businesses could be cash-based and if I remember correctly cash-based doesn’t care about inventory?