Whispering Air

Reading: Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams Pg1-3

I began reading Gaston Bachelard’s Air and Dreams.

First section talks about Imagination and Mobility.

We tend to think “imagination” forms images, but he talks about how “imagination” deforms images and frees us from “immediate images”.

In this part, Bachelard talks about how imagination frees us from the ordinaries, and shows us completely new images, renew our hearts and souls. Imaginations revitalize us.

I loved the part when he said,

“We could say that a stable and completely realized image clips the wings of the imagination”

“Imagination is primarily a kind of spiritual mobility of the greatest, liveliest, and most exhilarating kind.”

I was imagining flying imaginations. And there are forms and structured ordinaries come in and cut the wings.

How do imaginations move, fly?

Thinking about the soft colors in different forms and motion,

Drawing:

Airy Boxes and a Lonely Blob