Phoebe Washburn (MFA 02) shows new work in her solo exhibition My Rubies and My Diamonds on view at Josée Bienvenu Gallery (529 West 20th St, NYC) from September 13-October 27, 2012.

Q- Our house, aprehended in its dream potentitality, becomes a nest in the world , and we shall live there in complete confidence if, in our dreams, we really participate in sense of security of our first home.

C-The writer Gaston Bachelard makes a relationship between the house and the home, as a place that provides security, it becomes a refuge. As well as the birds to the nest, which create spaces where they trust, or as well as the shells, which become spaces to inhabit. The house becomes a place to live, as is art for the artist. A space of intimacy, an isolated space where we can withdraw into ourselves, a corner where we isolate ourselves from the rest. A corner where we can be with ourselves, a safe place, and walls that rise around our bodies to give us that feeling of protection.Our house becomes our corner of the world.

Q-Is it an open space, a space of insecurity?

Photo: Phoebe Washburn , 2008 Whitney Museum 

Ping-Pong Table by Phoebe Washburn, 2007

Digital c-print

Fujio Yoshida 1887-1987

In such moments, and they are instances of extraordinary vulnerability and exposure, the self fades away into a larger and more capacious environment or space for being. Such surrender takes place particularly powerfully in the experience of music. Mysticism is about evoking and opening us up to such experiences, limitless experiences of aliveness and intensity.”