Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Underpasses are Liminal Places”
“I had a sense of being propelled into the future while at the same time reversed into the prehistoric past. A past which held an animistic idea of the world, in which rocks and trees could speak” Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019,16 This week, I was lucky enough to …
“Don’t be scared by the dark…” Over the past few weeks, I’ve been pondering escape, not purely within a metaphorical context, but also physically. Contemplating logistics, considering exit strategies, wondering if I could begin again some place new… Life comes at you fast, sometimes too fast, to the point where …
An introduction to the Liminal Worlds project
For Phase 1 of the Underpasses Are Liminal Places project (July – November 2020), I asked field ops to place a sticker(s) within their chosen underpass, or underpasses. They were then required to record the ‘adventures’ of their stickers through photographing them every couple of weeks and sending these images …
“The further downward you travel, the closer you come to the power” (Ackroyd 2012, 3) Underpasses are to be found within many towns and cities. They also appear within rural landscapes, often manifesting as tunnels and flyovers. Spaces of transportation; by foot, pedal, automotive, other… Movement equals transition, not only …
The term, liminal, is derived from the Latin word for threshold, limen. Writers often employ the term ‘Crossing the Threshold’ for the moment the hero steps out of their ‘ordinary world’ and enters into the ‘world of adventure’ (Caroline Lawrence, pers comm). A liminal place can be described as a …
