1 Escher’s Elevator – “Post-quantum Geometries”
This work, along with a companion piece on the east side, was placed in the Emma Eccles Jones Education Building as part of a Utah arts program that sets aside a small portion of a state approved construction budget in order to provide art that will enhance and beautify the edifice.
The creator, artist Jack Archibald, described this work as follows,
“The artwork of Escher’s Elevator was meant to be nonlinear and interestingly illogical. Different perspectives confront the viewer as the ‘elevator’ rises. Dimensionally challenging, the artwork asks the viewer to continuously reorient spatially as well as intellectually as reality shifts in ascension and fall. Just as Escher created impossible geometries, Elevator is a study in post-quantum geometries, where spatial anomalies co-exist in kinetic tension.”
When the building is open you are welcome to enter and more fully experience this piece as you travel up and down the stairs.
2 Escher’s Elevator – Artist: Jack Archibald
The creator of “Escher’s Elevator,” Jack Archibald lives and works on Camano (kuh-MAY-no) Island, in Puget Sound, western Washington. A former school bus driver and hospital orderly Archibald taught himself the art of stained glass when the plastic, covering the windows in his rustic home, needed to be replaced. Now, more than two decades later, Archibald’s public works grace train stations, libraries, and county courthouses in cities all over the western United States. Not at a loss for major commissions, nevertheless, Archibald responded when the new city government building being constructed in his small home town did not have sufficient funding to include art, and he donated a 7 by 21 foot mural to the project to remind passerbys of the town’s vibrant arts community.