"The point of departure of my reflection is the following: every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or a house."
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 136)
"...being becomes manifest at the very moment when it comes forth from its corner."
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 138)
"And all who live in corners will come to confer life upon this image, multiplying the shades of being that characterize the corner dweller. For to great dreamers of corners and holes nothing is ever empty, the dialectics of full and empty only corresponds to two geometrical non-realities."
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 140)
"In an earlier chapter devoted to houses, I said that a house in an engraving may well incite a desire to live in it. We feel that we should like to live there, between the very lines of the engraved drawing. At times, too, the phantasm that impels us to live in corners, comes into being by the grace of a mere drawing."
(Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print, pp. 145)
Bibliography:
Bachelard, Gaston, and John R. Stilgoe. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon, 1994. Print
As I was reading I wasn't sure if this section of The Poetics of Space was going to help me with my work at all. I kept reading and found the quotes that I have posted. Not only do the quotes describe me as a person in a way but also describe some of the feelings that I would like the viewers of my work to feel. Bachelard writes: "...is a symbol of solitude for the imagination...". I don't ever remember spending much time in the corner when I was a child, I don't think i got into trouble that much. However, this quote said something to me since I suffer from depression. When ever I was having a really bad day I would seclude myself to a corner and there my mind would wonder on whatever it was that was bothering me. This leads me into the next quote where things are not so much clear in a corner until you come out of that corner is it that whatever it may be shows itself in a true light. I was particularly taken by the last quote when Bachelard talks about how in a drawing the fantasy of living in the corner is more concrete in a drawing. This is a feeling that I would like to come out in my work.
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