M. C. Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who created visually impossible architectural structures — endlessly ascending staircases, perpetual waterfalls, tessellating transformations — that became foundational images of paradox and self-reference.
Escher's impossible buildings — especially the Penrose staircase and the waterfall — provided the visual grammar for the dream-architecture sequences in 'Inception', where physical laws are subject to psychological revision.
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