There's a tactile quality to Orla Pemberton's clustered petal forms that gets at what Riegl meant by haptic vision - images that address the body before they address the eye. A small enclosed circle sits at the composition's heart like something meant to be touched rather than read, while the stem below, crossed twice by leaf forms, keeps the floating upper mass just tethered enough to avoid dissolving into scribble.
There's a tactile quality to Orla Pemberton's clustered petal forms that gets at what Riegl meant by haptic vision - images that address the body before they address the eye. A small enclosed circle sits at the composition's heart like something meant to be touched rather than read, while the stem below, crossed twice by leaf forms, keeps the floating upper mass just tethered enough to avoid dissolving into scribble.
- Curatorial note, wifärt gallery