Liminal Beings
2019
COMA Gallery


Liminal Being 01
2019
Duration: 20 min loop
Dimensions: 4K (3840 x 2160)
Edtion: 1 of 3 +AP.
Liminal Being 01
2019
Duration: 20 min loop
Dimensions: 4K (3840 x 2160)
Edtion: 1 of 3 +AP.
Liminal Being 03
2019
Duration: 20 min loop
Dimensions: 4K (3840 x 2160)
Edtion: 1 of 3 +AP.
Liminal Being 04
2019
Duration: 20 min loop
Dimensions: 4K (3840 x 2160)
Edtion: 1 of 3 +AP.
This work was originally inspired by the collaboration between Gerhard Richter and composer Steve Reich's “Patterns”. In this particular work, the painter's image is continually deconstructed until it reaches a state of the sublime. In a similar manner after creating and translating a series of interviews into data fields, I set about to create a sequence of further deconstruction and spatial abstraction. By utilising a series of digital cameras in space and imbuing the environment with a sense of speed I arrived at this point. Data points accelerated moving in micro space expanded into vistas of colour volumes.
Liminal beings are those that cannot easily be placed into a single category of existence. Liminal beings are naturally ambiguous, challenging the cultural networks of social classification. The work evolution of data-based personas which been further abstracted into soft light colour fields. The movement and colour echoing what they once were, now dissolved into amorphous fields of colour and light.
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In anthropology, liminality, meaning "a threshold" is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not yet begun the transition to the status they will hold when the rite is complete. During a rite's liminal stage, participants "stand at the threshold” between their previous way of structuring their identity, time, or community, and a new way, in which completing the rite is established.