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Un nid doux ( a soft nest ) # 1

By  Rachel Gibson 2010 - 2011

Rachel Gibson

In Gaston Bachelard's enigmatic phenomenological treatise, 'The Poetics of Space' the notion of the nest as an intimate place of protection is above all a psychological concept sometimes challenged by whose nest it is and where it is built.
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