Some Space to Some Place
There is a place that is neither here nor there. I have always been drawn to the in-betweeness. I have spent so much of my life, whether spending time on the airplane or learning new language, exploring places I have never been. When I first travelled internationally at 7, everything was unreal–sitting on a chair for 13 hours, looking out the tiny rounded window to see endless view down below, calculating time lag. Ever since that day, I was always waiting and wanting for another one and preparing for the day – being in between time and place. This period of time on the airplane still holds magic for me.
Following Gilles Deleuze’s methodology I refrain from querying what something ‘is’, what place is. Instead, I seek explanations that embrace the ‘how’ of place–attaching, connecting, echoing, and becoming–in which I can position my practical work, weaving cable ties to provoke and evoke. I therefore begin this chapter with place as a trope, like a journey, always in process and always with a progressive dimension. The focus is on ‘place’ rather than ‘space’. Henri Lefebvre pursues a fundamental way to accommodate abstract mental space with physical space and social space, permitting …show more content…
Instead, she argues it is in living in the ‘now’ sacred time and space, that we really belong. There is no homesickness, and as Gaston Bachelard observes, ‘how solid we would be within ourselves if we could live, live again without nostalgia and in complete ardor, in our primitive world.’ It is not simply the place previously experienced that is recalled, Ann Game suggests, but something virtual. Again Bachelard observes that a means of living in-between exists when now and then, new and old, at once–experience of doubled time like a folding or
There is a place that is neither here nor there. I have always been drawn to the in-betweeness. I have spent so much of my life, whether spending time on the airplane or learning new language, exploring places I have never been. When I first travelled internationally at 7, everything was unreal–sitting on a chair for 13 hours, looking out the tiny rounded window to see endless view down below, calculating time lag. Ever since that day, I was always waiting and wanting for another one and preparing for the day – being in between time and place. This period of time on the airplane still holds magic for me.
Following Gilles Deleuze’s methodology I refrain from querying what something ‘is’, what place is. Instead, I seek explanations that embrace the ‘how’ of place–attaching, connecting, echoing, and becoming–in which I can position my practical work, weaving cable ties to provoke and evoke. I therefore begin this chapter with place as a trope, like a journey, always in process and always with a progressive dimension. The focus is on ‘place’ rather than ‘space’. Henri Lefebvre pursues a fundamental way to accommodate abstract mental space with physical space and social space, permitting …show more content…
Instead, she argues it is in living in the ‘now’ sacred time and space, that we really belong. There is no homesickness, and as Gaston Bachelard observes, ‘how solid we would be within ourselves if we could live, live again without nostalgia and in complete ardor, in our primitive world.’ It is not simply the place previously experienced that is recalled, Ann Game suggests, but something virtual. Again Bachelard observes that a means of living in-between exists when now and then, new and old, at once–experience of doubled time like a folding or