Memory Box

Winter 2007
32cm x 21cm x 8cm

Description

Wooden Box with lattice-work lid, embroidered. Loose threads. Image of house on fabric, two furry buttons.

Themes, Comments and Storylines

“... the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.” (Bachelard 1994:6)

"The word habit is too worn a word to express this passionate liaison of our bodies, which do not forget, with an unforgettable house. […] The house we were born in is more than an embodiment of home, it is also an embodiment of dreams."(Bachelard 1994:15)

“taking the house as a tool of analysis of the human soul […] Not only our memories, but the things we have forgotten are housed. [...] the houses of things: drawers, chests and wardrobes. What psychology lies behind their locks and keys! They bear within themselves a kind of esthetics of hidden things.” (Bachelard 1994:Xxxvii)

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

 

 

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