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josie

01:31 pm

Varbūt šis paskaidro manu interesi par arhitektūru un to visu ņemšanos ar vietām un telpām.

“I think therefore I am; I think a house, therefore a house is?” wrote Purdy in his autobiography. In laying these two clauses out in parallel, is the implicit conflation of house and self not notable? For Purdy the link between self and house is clearly strong. And for all of us this is true: the making of our houses, whether it takes the form of pouring concrete or banging wood together or of simpler gestures like draping a sweater on the back of a chair, is related to our process of self-making. We are building a frame for our dwelling. The frame will affect how we are in the house and how we relate to what’s outside the house. And Purdy of course knew this, as he gives evidence of in his early poem, ‘Abstract Plans’ (1948), in which he writes of someday building a house, shaping “the windows to watch the road go by, / with one to catch the starlight and parallel the sky.” In this poem the self is clearly positioned in a house, relating through it both to the everyday world and to the infinite.

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