How to Make a Home by Edward Hollis

Author:Edward Hollis [Hollis, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781447293347
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

These arrangements of things – higgledy-piggledy or in lines, en masse like the plastic ducks, or placed in contradictory collage like Marjorie’s Chinese Serenity figure and her farting fish – were things that, he argued, had been carefully constructed over time.

And like the work of any artist, the ways in which people arrange things, wrote Miller, ‘form the basis on which people judge the world and themselves’.13 It’s a sentence that has an echo of Bachelard’s idea of home as a ‘real cosmos’.14 He was referring to the house as a building; but he could equally have been talking about the bric-a-brac it contained.

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