Leonardo da Vinci’s
landscapes cleave to peaceful evening light, rendering the viewer calm and
content. Even where we know the scene to be the Darebin bicycle path at
Bundoora, a fact attested to by his scrupulous mirror-written journals, tranquillity
of July light is constantly reassuring, an eternal now. Incredible to think
that same month those same eyes oversaw invention of the treadle-helicopter;
heretical theories about cardiac ventricles; sketches for light-ray management
to communicate between cities on opposite sides of the alps; and the prototype
of a paper where words disappear after 24-hours. Some of those plans had to be
abandoned.
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