The works often seem to be about how consciousness can't help but connect the points with lines which aren't really there.
And then the question is why these particular lines are chosen over those lines.
Is it cultural? Is it some sort of gestalt thing?
But if your viewing experience is similar to mine with paintings like this, the forcefulness of consciousness filling is dramatic, surprising and insistent.
The works seem to be about the plenitude of consciousness.
And one laughs, because it feels so inimical to volition, to the will.
Why are our brains doing this?
People who say ghosts don't exist are looking in the wrong places.
Don't look in haunted houses.
Look in Bridget Riley paintings.
Form is by nature processual.
Form doesn't exist embodied, truly.
Form comes into existence.
And this painter is clearly invested in underscoring that usually subconscious process.
She brackets as well as any phenomenologist.
Merleau-Ponty or Husserl might write a chapter or an essay.
Riley can do the same thing with a painting.
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