Beginning to dwell
Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space has been filling my imagination as I work through the most intense nesting instinct I’ve had in years. His focus on the lived aspects of architecture over the historical and formal are the imaginative quirks that served as inspiration for my work as an artist and as an apartment dweller. At the moment, I am gazing over my apartment as it lays in the throws of a passionate clean-up, updating, and general sprucing.
Peeling back the layers...
I didn’t really expect the archeological findings of my new apartment… however, so far I have fought my way through about 15 layers of paint. Each decade is accurately represented:
- 1980′s: multi-colored pastel wallpaper
- 1970′s: citrus yellow
- 1960′s: light green
- 1950′s: light yellow
- 1940′s: back to the light green
- 1930′s: original light butter-nut squash brown…
Ah… time travel.