2. Situated at the vertex or highest point; directly overhead.
“A house constitutes a body of images that give mankind proofs or illusions of stability. We are constantly re-imagining it reality: to distinguish all these images would be to describe the soul of the house; it would mean developing a veritable psychology of the house.”
“To bring order into these images, I believe that we should consider two principal connecting themes: 1) A house is imagined as a vertical being. It rises upward. It differentiates itself in terms of its verticality. 2) A house is imagined as a concentrated being. It appeals to our consciousness of centrality.”
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 17)
“Finally, the house that Bosco describes stretches from earth to sky. It possesses the verticality of the tower rising from the most earthly, watery depths, to the abode of a soul that illustrates the verticality of the human being.”
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 25)
Bibliography:
Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print.
This term (verticality) Bachelard uses a lot throughout the first chapter of The Poetics of Space. He uses the term to explain the way the house represents the human soul. I am going to start experimenting with this through my photography. I am going to start paying closer attention to the vertical lines of the houses that I am photographing.
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