Comment by Michael Grove on January 31, 2012 at 10:16

“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory
is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.”

The Buddha

Comment by Michael Grove on January 31, 2012 at 10:17

IN the context of the even heavier burden of hope BEING placed on Barack Obama and, Rahm Emanuel's statement, as Obama's Chief of Staff elect, that …

” You NEVER WANT a serious crisis to go to waste ”

IT IS NOT just encumbant on Barack Obama to take individual responsibility of ACTION in the face of CRISES that have come home to roost, BUT …

THE COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY of the people to TAKE ACTION in support of the best EXAMPLE of ACTION of their LEADER … IF we are to implement

A NEW MODEL, which Robert Peston says we so badly need.

Comment by Michael Grove on February 7, 2012 at 14:28

PERCEPTION IS indeed THE MEDIUM

Bridget Riley is about the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes apparently disastrous - that can take place in a given situation.

The situation is presented in the simplest possible terms

            John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963

 

One of the most distinctive characteristics of Bridget Riley's art is that it "insists" with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else.

The experience which Riley offers is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of
mind.

The very intensity of the assault which her painting makes on the eye drives it, as it were, past the point at which it is merely a matter of optical effect.

It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, heightened self-awareness or heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being.

 Bridget Riley Catalogue introduction - David Thompson
 Venice Biennale, June 1968

Comment by Michael Grove on September 18, 2012 at 9:41

ITS these very processes of life - that have to be understood      

and acknowledged - before we can awaken to the fact that we

are on the journey and committed to continuing the journey

until WE awaken yet again to being fully enlightened -

and in so doing START ALL OVER in the NEW beginning !

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