Series of self-portraits that inhabit those other spaces, between the intimate, at home, and the imaginary. In a certain way, a surrealist poetic of the inhabited space.

Following the French philosopher and writer Gaston Bachelard, I re-imagine my being in my home, in my intimate spaces with my objects, dreaming with me being Nature, and the idea of returning  home after being outside

"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity in its depths.”

Gaston Bachelard “The Poetics of Space”, 1964

These minimalist hand-cut collages are made with my first black and white photographs and early slides. (2003/2016). 

© Susana I. Espana