This reading was also suggested, and again I attempted to search any of Bachelard's works in the College library and was unsuccessful. Therefore as any student would, I hit up Google. I came across a few particularly un-insightful pages then stumbled upon this Blogspot review (which by the way, took about 50 million years to upload thanks to a brilliantly quick College computer).
"Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality."
From the review I highlighted a few phrases that correlated with my own concepts of my current work, and the ideas of a potential domestic environment whereby my work would/could be shown.NB: domestic environment could be created through installation piece.
"Bachelard determines that the house has both unity and complexity, it is made out of memories and experiences, its different parts arouse different sensations at yet it brings up a unitary, intimate experience of living."
"Bachelard explains his focus on the poetic image for it being the property of the innocent consciousness, something which precedes conscious thought, does not require knowledge and is the direct product of the heart and soul. This direct relation of poetry to reality, for Bachelard, intensifies the reality of perceived objects ("imagination augments the values of reality", The Poetics of Space, p.3)."
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