![]() The world is topsy turvy, as it were, and nothing conforms to our expectations. Like Escher does in some of his artwork, most notably Waterfall Up and Down, Luczywo stages provocative inversions and displacements, where objects, animals and human beings aren’t where we’d expect them to be. What you see reflected in this (or any) image is largely up to you as a viewer. But, of course, photography, like all art, is open-ended, not limited to any given interpretation. Personally, when I see this image it makes me think of the following implication: if we can’t live and appreciate each of these stages of our daily lives in the present, we will lose them forever, except in the images of our memories and art. Photography attempts to immortalize a moment–and an important stage of our lives–that is, in fact, very fleeting. The children will grow and move on to create their own lives the parents will age. No matter how much photography may freeze this moment in time, time will flow on. Luczywo catches a moment in the life of a family reflected in the water, with one of the children holding a large clock. In the photograph The Great Migration (see image at the top of the page), for example, we not only see the physical reflections of leaves in the pond in a manner similar to Escher’s art, but also a metaphysical reflection on the passage of time. Escher, but gives them a metaphysical twist. ![]() Sebastian Luczywo’s photography sets into play tessellation patterns, reminiscent of the art of M.
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