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— The Poetics of Space - Gaston Bachelard
==But how can housework be made into a creative activity?
The minute we apply a glimmer of consciousness to a mechanical gesture, or practice phenomenology while polishing a piece of old furniture, we sense new impressions come into being beneath this familiar domestic duty.
For consciousness rejuvenates everything, giving a quality of beginning to the most everyday actions.== It even dominates memory.
How wonderful it is to really become once more the inventor of a mechanical action!
==And so, when a poet rubs a piece of furniture—even vicariously—when he puts a little fragrant wax on his table with the woolen cloth that lends warmth to everything it touches, he creates a new object; he increases the object’s human dignity; he registers this object officially as a member of the human household.== Henri Bosco once wrote:32 “The soft wax entered into the polished substance under the pressure of hands and the effective warmth of a woolen cloth.
Slowly the tray took on a dull luster.
It was as though the radiance induced by magnetic rubbing emanated from the hundred-year-old sapwood, from the very heart of the dead tree, and spread gradually, in the form of light, over the tray.
The old fingers possessed of every virtue, the broad palm, drew from the solid block with its inanimate fibers, the latent powers of life itself.
This was creation of an object, a real act of faith, taking place before my enchanted eyes.” Objects that are cherished in this way really are born of an intimate light, and they attain to a higher degree of reality than indifferent objects, or those that are defined by geometric reality.
For they produce a new reality of being, and they take their place not only in an order but in a community of order.
==From one object in a room to another, housewifely care weaves the ties that unite a very ancient past to the new epoch.
The housewife awakens furniture that was asleep.==