Idea Blog - Immensity

Immensity:

1 :the quality or state of being immense

2

:something immense

(immense: marked by greatness especially in size or degree;especially : transcending ordinary means of measurement; : supremely good : excellent)

I have chosen the word immensity because this is what I strive for in my work. I also chose this word because it is what describes my "daydreams" of the houses that I photograph. I strive for people and myself to use this term when talking about my work and to have immense daydreams when looking at my photographs.

"In analyzing images of immensity, we should realize within ourselves the pure being of pure imagination. It then becomes clear that works of art are the by-product of this existentialism of the imaging being."

(Bachelard, Gaston, Maria Jolas, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print. pp. 184)

"Immensity is within ourselves. It is attached to a sort of expansion of being that life curbs and caution arrests, but which starts when we are alone."

(Bachelard, Gaston, Maria Jolas, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print. pp. 184)

Bibliography:

Bachelard, Gaston, Maria Jolas, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print.