The Droste Effect: For your Writing

Workshop: The Droste Effect with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre, Friday, 20th October, 1pm-3pm.  Readings of Delmore  Schwartz's short story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities". Writing exercises will involve using the Droste Effect  to tell a particular story - of a story within a story, within a story, etc.

Venue: Fremantle Arts Centre, Upstairs Room, however inquire at desk. Time: 1-3pm. What to bring: Notepad, pen, laptop or iPad Cost: OOTA $25 - NON-OOTA $30 (ask for membership form to save). For information on joining OOTA and what we do, please visit our website ootawriters.com

The Droste effect (Dutch pronunciation: [drɔstə]), known in art as mise en abyme, is the effect of a picture appearing within itself, in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear.^[1] The appearance is recursive: the smaller version contains an even smaller version of the picture, and so on. Only in theory could this go on forever; practically, it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows, which is relatively short, since each iteration geometrically reduces the picture's size. It is a visual example of a strange loop, a self-referential system of instancing which is the cornerstone of fractal geometry.