Sunday 5 July 2015

Leonardo (July)


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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