We were appointed by the World Bank’s South Asia Economic Focus team to develop a series of cover and opening-chapter illustrations for a report on Economic Mobility in South Asia. Because the subject is defined by high inequality of opportunity and low intergenerational mobility, we grounded the visual concept in M.C. Escher’s “impossible” constructions and spaces.

These structures depict spatial junctions that can only exist in two-dimensional space. Built on the superposition of perspectives, they create the illusion of connected planes that would otherwise be physically impossible — a visual metaphor for systems that appear connected, yet remain structurally constrained.

> World-Bank — Economic Mobility in South Asia
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