space and text
Bachelard builds and creates spaces through words. We, as readers, can travel through them as if it were our own space. As if his descriptions were part of our memories. The same with poetry, written images that transcend the textual language and become our own.
Foulcault changes and can almost recreate through writing Velazques' Las Meninas. Once the pictorial space is looked at through Foucault's description it becomes a new experience, almost a new space. Visually how could words be thrown and arranged in space so as to change it. What would this space be? And what are the words? Should they describe space or just give it a new texture? Should they ask questions?
Calvino describes cities, invisible cities, which become visible and live to us by his language, by his ordering of abstract signs which to us make sense as words. Which to us will be, for each person, a different space according to the experience we have of these words. And from this point the cities, the spaces, the images, start to exist. One can walk through it's streets, lose thoughts in one of them, leave memories behind, see a camel, or a ship or even the people who walk these cities, who inhabit them.
These are all interesting ways of looking at language and the birth or transformation of images. I feel like I have to live the words I chose, to make them my own and visually express them, and write them, or repeat them out loud. Still thinking how to do this!