Slide Dreams
Do you possess Kodachrome
slides in your collection? If so, try scanning them.
The results may draw you nearer to a place of “dream-memory lost in the shadow of a beyond of the real past.” (Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)
“…we think we know ourselves in time, when all we know is a sequence of fixations in the spaces of the being’s stability - a being who does not want to melt away, and who… when he sets out in search of things past, wants time to suspend its flight.” (Bachelard)
“…the houses that were lost forever continue to live on in us… they insist in us in order to live again… We consider the past, and a sort of remorse at not having lived profoundly enough in the old house fills our hearts, comes up from the past, overwhelms us.” (Bachelard)
“In its countless alveoli space contains compressed time. That is what space is for.” (Bachelard)
“Baudelaire declared that dreamers like a severe winter.” (Bachelard)