Art by Bridget Riley

Bridget Riley's art explores the mental state of dizziness. Her paintings, particularly Movement in Squares 1961,

but also Arrest 2 1965

and Achaean 1982

all have a hallucinating effect upon the viewer. In the same way that specific dance movements can create a dizzy state, so can Riley's style of painting, in her discipline, induce the same mental frenzy.

          I am encouraged by this to take note that external stimuli can restrict our way of thinking by putting us in a particular mental condition, such as that of dizziness, although it seems that internal turmoil, also, such as pain or emotion, likewise has effect upon our movements and response to external stimuli.