in betweenCarl Jung used the word 'liminality' to describe that time in the process of individuation where you know you cannot go back to who you were but don't know yet what you are becoming. I find myself so often drawn towards exploring the idea of liminality, it’s an unconscious red thread in so much of my work, interests, hobbies and thought life (see the intro of this newsletter as exhibit A). For me, liminal space, the space between what was and what will be, often feels like groundlessness, fragmenting of the self and disorientation, anxiety, really. It’s an experiential no man’s land. Sometimes, ever so rarely, I can experience it as a hopeful and anticipatory place, or as a sign that the old way of being, that fit like a tight shoe, has been dropped or is in the process of dropping away. Shoeless, though, there’s a long road ahead. A few years ago when I was acutely feeling in this space psychologically and emotionally (although to be honest this is a perpetual place I reside), I wanted to explore it through sound and image. I created in between no.1 and in between no. 2 with that intention. Funny enough, the finished pieces turned out quite meditative, not really scary at all, the opposite, really. I think that there’s a benevolent force inside of me, one which drives me to make the work that I need in that moment, not the work that I think is needed.
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