The House of the Poet

Illustration inspired by the book "The Poetics of Space" (Gastón Bachelard, 1958).

Using metaphors, he describes what it would be like to live within words and language: etymologies would be found in the basement, while symbols and the abstract would live in the attic. Thus, the work of the true poet will be to go up and down the house to unite the terrestrial and the aerial inside the language…

3D Illustration by Francisco Cortés. 2018.