The Third Space

The Third Space is a unique publication, emerging from a collaboration between poet Sudesh Mishra, painter John Forrest, and philosophers and aestheticians Ann McCulloch and Ron Goodrich.

The book features 33 paintings and 33 poems; rather than serving as merely illustrations of the other, the authors/artists have experimented with how each artform can bring further significance to the other and make new meaning.

The accompanying essays by Ann McCulloch and R.A. Goodrich provide the reader/viewer with further entry points to this novel form of making meaning, discussing aesthetic, philosophical, historical and political questions endemic not only to the selected art and poetry but to questions governing creative art processes.

The resultant work occupies, as the authors propose, the ‘third space’.