Gaston Bachelard

If we look at it from another point of view, photography is actually very suitable existence. it does not need such a scientific measurement of the difference between itself and the memory to some extent. Photography has its unique effect, it can be connected to the memories and art. It records and create a fixed time and space, but it is showing works across time and space. Only this point, let the technology is full of mystery. Photographic output screen allows us to have a lot of associations, which can be filled with beauty, poetic. In fact, the memory is can be a poetic thing.

I search a French philosopher -- Gaston Bachelard. He was a philosopher of science and literary critic. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break(obstacle épistémologique et rupture épistémologique). He rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida.

Bachelard was a postmaster in Bar-sur-Aube, and then studied physics before finally becoming interested in philosophy. He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne.

I research the book for "The Poetics of Space " ( La Poétique de l'Espace, 1958) . In this book, Bachelard think the house is the quintessential phenomenological object, meaning that this is the place in which the personal experience reaches its epitome. Bachelrad sees the house as a sort of initial universe, asserting that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home" (The Poetics of Space, p.5). Bachelard proceeds to examine the home as the manifestation of the soul through the poetic image and literary images which are found in poetry. He examines locations in the house as places of intimacy and memory which are manifested in poetry.

Bachelard thinks, we are comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. 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; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

I choose Bacheard's memory theory is because, I have some works for the memory project was set up in a dark intimate space. This kind of set up is from my opinion of the space and memories. I think the space is having a sense of security, stability, intimate that for carry memories has a very important influence. I showed the memory images are all present the simple black and white colors, this tone corresponds to a set up of memory space environment. 

Therefore, I research Gaston Bachelard’s theory. Also it is in "The Poetics of Space" ( La Poétique de l'Espace, 1958) shows a phenomenological interrogation into the meaning of spaces which preoccupy poetry, intimate spaces such as a house, a drawer, a night dresser and spaces of wide expansion such as vistas and woods. 

                                         From my work which is in a dark intimate space

For Bachelard's theory, my opinion is memories are subjective. We are very difficult to achieve the same objective as the historical record of comments in the past. Memories are very poetic, I think that carried memories of the occasion (space) is very important. Their presence is sometimes determines the content and direction of memories.