(Image: Yoshitaka Kashima)
“All these psychic glimmers from roughed-out births shed light on a cosmos being born, the cosmos of limbo. Glimmers and limbo, there then is the dialectic of the antecedence of the being of childhood. A word dreamer cannot help being sensitive to the softness of speech which puts glimmers (leurs) and limbo (limbes) under the influence of two labiates. With the glimmer there is water in the light, and Limbo is aquatic. And we shall always return to the same oneiric certainty: Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows….Reverie toward our past , reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back to life lives which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with the possibilities which destiny has not been able to make use of. A great paradox is connected with our reveries toward childhood: in us, this dead past has a future…” – Gaston Bachelard “The Poetics of Reverie”
This dead past has a future. This reverie can send ripples not only forwards, but backwards through the waters of childhood.