Escher Belt

[Luckowner]

This is a belt I designed.

The buckle is a sterling silver 3D rendition of Escher's "Drawing Hands", the most famous lithograph, by the most famous graphic artist of all time.

The strap is a burgundy red hornback crocodile.

What do you think about it?

 

[usctrojans31]

It won't get much stylistic love here in classic menswear, but will definitely get play in SW&D. I think that you did a good job and it is a very interesting concept.

 

[Mark Veldhuysen]

Hi, presumably your belt buckle is for personal use only?

Mark Veldhuysen
CEO
The M.C. Escher Company B.V.

 

[FlaneurNYC]

TBH, I think it loses something in the translation to 3D.

 

[Luckowner]

Which one of Escher's prints do you think would work best as a buckle?

 

[FlaneurNYC]

The beauty of Escher's work is in the tricks it plays with your eye. Once you create it in 3 dimensions, it loses part of its allure. At least that's my take. Other people may find this buckle holds up to the original.

It's a beautiful carving. The work is splendid. And I know from experience how hard it is to carve wax. So that's certainly not a problem. Why is it that you desire to create Escher's work in 3D rather than something of your own, perhaps inspired by Escher?

 

[kasakka]

I agree with FlaneurNYC, it's well done but loses the point of the original which is hands drawing each other. Just doesn't work when taken off the paper.

 

[Luckowner]

Ok, here are some of my ideas for an "inspired by Escher belt".

A strap, which is hands drawing each other endlessly, similar to this: http://tylermoreland.deviantart.com/art/Escher-Inspired-Hand-Study-201173703

A Mobius Strip strap or buckle.

A buckle that somehow uses his ideas for the "Relativity" print, but in a belt sort of way .

Do you think any of these ideas are good?

 

[FlaneurNYC]

I don't really think adding more hands would help. But I'm not the target market for a buckle like that.

Some of these shapes would make cool belt buckles:

http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~gershon/EscherForReal/

You could also gain inspiration from some of the patterns. You could either vary metals or oxidize to create the color effect. Stuff like this: