“Talent and all that for the most part is nothing but hogwash. Any schoolboy with a little aptitude might very well draw better than I perhaps; but what he most often lacks is the tough yearning for realization, the teeth-grinding obstinacy and saying: even though I know I’m not capable of it, I’m still going to do it.” — M.C. Escher, in a letter to his son Arthur, 12 February 1955

I ran across the quote above while desperately searching the last two days for a way to re-do my logo. I was discussing this with a graphic artist and the idea came about of using the face that currently appears in my logo, but making it look like it was “unwinding.” If you can imagine taking an apple-peeler and peeling and apple, with the peel staying intact and then superimpose a face on that, well, that’s what I’m talking about. So far, I can’t figure out how to do it. I thought I remembered seeing it as an Escher print once, so during a search on “Escher” and “displacement map” (because I think that’s what this would be), I found the quote above.

It perfectly characterizes what I’m trying to do here, too.

Gotta love the irony.