Context

During the presentation of the illusion project, we learned about the optical illusions designed by M.C. Escher. His works such as Relativity are well known because of the impossibility of the motion produced in the images. We wanted to recreate the manipulation of a 3d space to imitate a 2D plane.

We saw Escher's use of the Penrose Stairs in his piece Ascending and Descending and remembered its use in the movie Inception. We decided to convey the infinite motion of the staircase by using a clay ball to "fall" down the steps infinitely.

The sound was inspired by the artwork fallingfalling.com's audio which seems to descend with the motion of the collapsing colorful planes. We wanted to combine the aspects of the Penrose stairs and fallingfalling.com to convey the infinite descent down the stairs.