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| Bridget Riley Blaze 1964 screenprint Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Punjab 1971 acrylic on canvas Glasgow Museums, Scotland |
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| Bridget Riley Eclipse 1973 acrylic on linen British Council Collection, London |
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| Bridget Riley Final Cartoon for Painting 1973 gouache on paper British Council Collection, London |
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| Bridget Riley Final Sequence Study for Painting 1974 gouache on paper British Council Collection, London |
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| Bridget Riley Study for Entice I 1974 gouache on paper Senate House, University of London |
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| Bridget Riley Study for the Liverpool Royal Hospital 1981 gouache on paper Victoria Gallery & Museum, Liverpool |
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| Bridget Riley Sea Cloud 1981 oil on linen Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Bridget Riley Achaean 1981 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Luxor 1982 oil on linen Glasgow Museums, Scotland |
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| Bridget Riley Cherry Autumn 1983 oil on linen Birmingham Museum, West Midlands |
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| Bridget Riley Gouache 1987 gouache on paper Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Fête 1989 screenprint Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Nataraja 1993 oil on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Evoë 3 2003 oil and acrylic on canvas Tate Modern, London |
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| Bridget Riley Study no. 4 for Painting with Two Verticals 2004 watercolor on paper York City Art Gallery, North Yorkshire |
Burning Leaves
The fire burns up into the clear sky,
eager and furious, like an animal trying to get free,
to run wild as nature intended –
When it burns like this,
leaves aren't enough – it's
acquisitive, rapacious,
refusing to be contained, to accept limits –
There's a pile of stones around it.
Past the stones, the earth's raked clean, bare –
Finally the leaves are gone, the fuel's gone,
the last flames burn upwards and sidewards –
Concentric rings of stones and gray earth
circle a few sparks;
the farmer stomps on these with his boots.
It's impossible to believe this will work –
not with a fire like this, those last sparks
still resisting, unfinished,
believing they will get everything in the end
since it is obvious they are not defeated,
merely dormant or resting, though no one knows
whether they represent life or death.
– Louise Glück (2009)