I want to give the reader a short introduction into what my book is about, but I don’t want to make it too obvious. I think a quote is a really good way to do this. It will imply the ideas behind my photos without giving away everything completely. I want to sort of leave the images open to interpretation. I think this is an important part of art; that it can be interpreted in all kinds of ways.
I was really inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’, so I want to include one of the quotes from this book. There are a few that I feel express what I’m trying to show through my work… that our everyday is what best shapes and represents who we are, and that there is beauty in that. I will think more about which one I want to include within the book as I do more experimentation on InDesign.
- “The house is on of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind.”
- “Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories we add to our store of dreams…”
- “One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.”
- “Our house is our corner of the world.”
Other quotes to consider:
“How people place things can be telling of how and what we are… It’s all around us… expressions of everything that’s us; how we’ve been brought up, taught or learnt determines how we do things from cutting a loaf of bread to painting a wall.” – Nigel Shafran
“…The significance of our lives is implanted in these subtle and everyday occurrences.” – Nigel Shafran
“These inanimate objects read like a diary of events of your life – of what you eat, who you meet, what these places look like.” – Charlotte Cotton (I won’t include this, because it’s Cotton talking about Shafran’s work – but it’s interesting to consider how my work might have a similar effect.)
“I am at war with the obvious.” – William Eggleston
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