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'Experience And Reverie’ - Artists Statement


 
 
  "When a dreamer of reveries has swept aside all the preoccupations which were encumbering his everyday life, when he has detached himself from the worry which comes to him from the worry of others, when he is thus truly the author of his solitude, when he can finally contemplate a beautiful aspect of the universe without counting the minutes, that dreamer feels a being opening within him. Suddenly such a dreamer is a world dreamer. He opens himself to the world, and the world opens itself to him." (Bachelard 2004:173)  
 
 

Weeks has furthered her ongoing engagement with site as a physical reality and philosophical tool through this work titled 'The Experience And Reverie Postcard Picnic'. The work owes not only its use of the terms 'experience' and 'reverie' to the French philosopher Bachelard but also its intent to share the contemplation of a beautiful aspect.

The work was originally generated through walking between Brook cottage and the beehive hut (an ancient fogou) in an area called Bodrifty, and photographing specific places along the route which offer potential as poetic images, and which might facilitate an opening to the world. Weeks' use of image and text reflects her understanding of the totality of being as being made up of experience and reverie, of direct experience of the world and of the dreaming of the world. The images correspond to the external reality of places along the walk whilst the text corresponds to her inner dreaming of those places.

Weeks originally chose to exhibit the work close to the start of the walk which inspired the creation of the postcards by organising a picnic for the residents and friends of Bodrifty.

Bachelard, Gaston, 2004, The Poetics Of Reverie, Beacon Press, New York

 
 
  Postcards examples & images from picnic          
  corndoll   experience & reverie postcards   larks anvil   picnic 1  
                 
  experience & reverie   the gateway   picnic2   the fogue  
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  picnic 5   picnic 4   picnic3   picnic 6