Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Riley (July)


Bridget Riley is an enigma for anyone who has never seen her meticulous abstracts in the raw. Viewers report personal experiences, even mystical ones (if there’s a difference), such as heightened visual receptivity, Stendahlian ocular overload, temporary ecstatic union. Google Image Bridget Riley to find pages of zigzag formulations, optical illusions, exploding inevitables, magpie melees, wavy Waverley. One personal response is to see July winter light refreshing the Port Phillip District from early morning fog through cloud lift over road congestion to cold drop at 5pm and onset of vertical night rain. Though some would call this a mystical response.

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