This week, I went to check out the M.C. Escher exhibit at the Portland Art Museum.  I've only been to the PAM three times now, first for the Rembrandt exhibit, and also for "The Dancer" show last year that had work by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.  The Escher show was very good, but nowhere near as deep as a show as the other two.  Perhaps it's an unfair comparison, printmaking is rather limited in terms of the size of the pieces, but it just seemed that there wasn't nearly as much work presented.  I'm okay with that, what was there was excellent.  The must-see piece is the famous "Relativity" print, and it was fascinating to see an original print.  One thing that struck me about the show was a sense of scale - Escher's work in particular has been reproduced so heavily in such a variety of forms that the very idea that his work was supposed to be a particular size was kind of hard to get used to.  "Relativity" was a decent -sized print, but seeing it not as a dorm-room poster was strange.