Attachments

Winter 2007

33cm x 25cm x15cm

 

Description

Dark wooden box lined with pink fabrics. Lid lined with matching quilted pink fabric. White ladies’ collar with white embroidery, pink garter and pin with pink heart-shaped head on lid, stiff white gentleman’s collar,  brown leather buttons

 

Themes, Comments and Storylines

 

Intimate spaces, attachments of the body, sexuality, the erotic

 

 

 

“The casket contains the things that are unforgettable… Here the past, the present and the future are condensed. Thus the casket is memory of what is immemorial.”

 

Bachelard, Gaston (1994), The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas, Beacon Press, Boston, p.84

 

 

“…every important collection – Bergson’s pure recollection – is set in its little casket […. ]

Chests, especially small caskets, over which we have more complete mastery, are objects that may be opened…. Closed, it is returned to the general community of objects; it takes its place in exterior space. But it opens!”

 

Bachelard, Gaston (1994), The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas, Beacon Press, Boston, p.85

 

“My earliest memory is of my father taking me to start school. He walked me to school for the first two weeks and then I walked with other children. When he was walking me to school he lost a leather buttom from his camel coat, I remember searching for it for weeks and weeks after, I never found that button.”

 

BBC Radio 4 Memory Experience 2006

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/memory/