In many of his wood engravings representing building interiors, Escher used the kind of “overturning”, positive/negative way of depiction that can be interpreted both ways, in which it is often hard to tell if certain details represent protrusions or indentations. In the case of stairs, we often return to the starting point, while we seem to move consequently upwards or downwards. I took a fancy to creating interactive plastic artworks in this world of
illusion using three directions of space that suggest gradualness, while through their twisted nature—like a fraction of a spiral staircase—making a transit to other perpendicular planes possible. This is how this abstract shape system, my work Steps, was born, the uniqueness of which derives from the stairs positioned on the top of static prisms of various heights that could also be interpreted as ornaments. We can set up, lay down, slide or turn the individual elements in a variety of ways, we will always find forms arranged in a traditional or fanwise manner that will offer transitions to the imaginary intersecting network of planes.