Plug half full
An inverted plug in the basin at Wamboin speaks of a plug half full and half empty.
We live in a shed here at Wamboin. To keep warm we have built in an insulated, heatable corner with bed, couch, tv and computer.
This has become the indisputable’inside’. Building it made what was previously inside more like outside, without the the wind and rain. We now call this place we cook and spend most of our time ‘midside’. ‘Midside’ is a very particular place, both inside and outside.
We have coined a companion word, (like ‘frile’, I expect, which was already coined*), which also describes this space, which is the ‘midterior’. Being that these between spaces are being widely cultivated by architects, this word ‘midterior’ would be well employed if it has not been coined.
The world was a simpler place when it could be divided between interior and exterior. The ‘interior’, ‘inside’, had provided protection from predators and a ‘wild’ nature. The exterior was a place to which one escaped and was also naturally more at risk.
Now danger and safety are indiscriminate about where they manifest their natures.
The plug was used to hold water from going away, it is here poised, hesitant, wondering about its purpose.
Language is becoming quite leaky. The basin is a leaking vessel.
See earlier blog, ‘The Frile’.