Occupation
Cross-Stitch Stitch Labour Work Space Shelter House Refuge Hide Sleep Close Close Intimate Daydream Work Labour Use Value End Occupy Inhabit Occupy Action Silence History Record Speak Silence…
Think of intimate…it means “make known, announce, impress” - it means “inmost” - it means “close friend” … the intimacy of space - the intimacy of control - the space of control - the space of intimacy - Poetic matrices…
“We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost” (G. Bachelard, The Poetics of Space)
Sound recordings of texts written in the attic where the children slept some 150 odd years ago. Cross-stitch on an unfamiliar frame. Jumbled words & iterations. The Workhouse acts now as a damp trigger for response to so many histories, so many daydreams, so much intimacy and so much isolation…
J.D.F. August 2008
