- researching around the domestic and found writings around the sublime of the domestic
- ‘sub’ latin meaning – ‘up to’
- ‘limen’ meaning – ‘threshold’ or ‘lintel’ – suggesting that the sublime stops or starts at the entrance and/or exit of the home
- looking at origins of term, language, theory, abstract expression and contemporary art
Sublime – any attempt to frame, contain or give form to the sublime will fail – which makes me think of where it can be found? is it seen, is it our environment, a thought? or is it our sensation to something that makes it sublime?
Domestic – meanings of control, tame, trivial, safety, cosiness – not a compliment – if we are to ‘domesticate’ and animal we are taking it out of its’ natural habitat and moulding it to coexist with our predisposed environment
The domestic causes a discomfort in the Fine Arts – it is the opposite – ‘the domestic has been the uncanny other to the sublime’
‘Modernist film embraced the ‘kitchen sink’ as a scene of gritty realist drama – art didn’t.’
‘domestic….remains….a crucial site of anxiety and subversion’ Not at Home. Christopher Reed
Parallels of these themes can be explored in The Wizard of Oz – the dullness of Kansas verses the technicolour of Oz
Research Longinus, Burke
Kant – talking of the female, De Châtelet, that a woman discoursing learnedly about mathematics “might as well have a beard”!!!!!!!!!! would love to do a video of me growing a beard