Abstract
Familiarity with our world and our perceptual apparatus (our eye and brain mechanisms) deadens our perception, and so we need artists to shock us into seeing. James Joyce and M. C. Escher provide masterfully the necessary moments of surprise, trompe l'oeil, and tricks of the brain, to give us insight into cognition. They create a powerful conjunction because of their complexity and their play with our learned responses. Juxtaposing Escher's visual play and Joyce's verbal play forces us to look at processes we usually overlook or take for granted: moments when perception becomes cognition and when cognition can become art.1 Then we can analyze our own responses, as readers and as viewers.
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