Extract found in Poetics of Imaginining Kearney, R.
“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.
An imaginary room rises up around our body, which we think well hidden when we take refuge in a corner.
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetic of Space
Was reminded of the story my mum tells people of how she left me out side Woolworth as a baby, all covered up in blankets in the summer to cover up my disability.
when she came out some elderly lady’s was looking at me with sympathy, mum went mad and shouted at them “get away she don’t need your sympathy” this was the shock she needed as up till than she had not bonded with me.
I was in a special place away from prying eyes.
self – employed and self-driven -a person who works within an intelllectual, conceptual and emotional frame that they designed themselves.
Farthing,S . An intelligent Persons Guide to Modern Art (2000).
