Observations on Leonardo (2)

Personally, I find something much more spiritually fulfilling in Leonardo’s androgyny, of lover and beloved, and, incidentally, as in his sketches of the parabolic droop of acorns, inconstant grass, sun-bearing trees, he illustrates the paths of motion that normally disappear and reappear with the dictates of time, or, conversely, its modality, he brings the motion, weight, percussion, and force together into optical mastery with no chance of a rival or precedent to impede his mighty ocular capacities, all while he teaches the eye to see and the pulse to infer, by which virtue he becomes artistry itself articulated with life.