Detail from [link] with the contrast upped. (Full view, please).

When painting semi-chaotic random textures like clouds, my mind will "recognize" shapes. Like a Rorschach ink blot. The shapes can be birds, faces, letters, symbols or geometric designs. Thus "The Tapestry of Rorschachery" emerges.

M.C. Escher and Leonardo Da Vinci would use this tapestry for inspiration.

From page 100 of _Escher on Escher_, Escher writes:
"... I found one suggestion in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci. This is the fragment, translated as best I can: 'When you have to represent an image, observe some walls that are besmeared with stains or composed of stones of varying substances. You can discover in them resemblances to a variety of mountainous landscapes, rivers, rocks, trees, vast plains, and hills. You can also see in them battles and human figures, strange facial features and items of clothing, and an infinite number of other things whose forms you can straighten out and improve. It is the same with crumbling walls as it is with the sound of church bells, in which you can discover every name and every word you want.'"

Can you find the image of Leonardo Da Vinci in the clouds above?

I have used just this process to find every Escher-like tessellation I've invented. In _Escher-like Monkeys_ the monkeys move from abstract two dimensional tessellations to realistic three dimensional creatures much like the lizards in Escher's print _Reptiles_. [link]

The octahedron/tetrahedron structures the monkeys are related to the structure in Escher's print _Flatworms_.
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Escher-like-monkeys [link] is a tribute to Escher in a number of different ways.