Liminal Space Art Blog
"With dawn of the new year on the horizon, I resolved to exert my will on the world." -Holly Black
Liminal Art Starts Conversation
The paper flowers that wrap around this sculpture are meant to evoke a feeling of life bursting from the earth in spring. They are covered with a light dusting of snow which appears to be melting. This sculpture spins on its base and has a wind-up music box that plays the song “Edelweiss.” This piece shows how liminal art starts conversation. It raises the question, “Why?”
Time for Old Me and New Me
I made a sculpture about Old Me and New Me. It began with a small wooden box. It became a voice for who I was and who I now am. There is a bud inside the box, and it represents the unfurling of new thoughts, beliefs, and convictions lying within me and on the precipice of being released. There is also a burgeoning flower in the box, and it represents the unfolding of my mind. This unfolding is a flourishing of what was once buried. “Old Me” and “New Me.”
Art and Liminal Space
Liminal Space Art is a book about liminality expressed through words and paintings of collage artist, Alisa E. Clark.
3D Liminal Self-Portrait
I needed a way move through time and space to tell this part of my story. It required portals: doors, sky, air, water, and a way to move in and out of a space. This made experimenting with 2D and 3D expressions of these gateways wholly necessary. This is my “old style” mixed with a new execution.
Painting Unexpected Choices on Our Canvas
I paint unexpected choices on my canvas. This collage of exotic fish swimming in strange, magical, deep waters creates a sense of mystery. It opens the door for the viewer to ask questions. Each unexpected choice is an invitation that sparks conversation.
Painting Inner Experience Within a Liminal Space
I draw a door from my childhood home, and I tuck it away in the shadows of my work. It represents yesterday. I add some birds. They are me, today. I include some words about my hopes and fears for tomorrow. Liminal art, my art, rides the tension created by the movement of time.
I Know the Truth
The surface of my canvas teems with fish, crawling insects, the turning colors of leaves, floating bubbles of air, deep blue waters, thoughts, and memories. Here, nature and memory anchor me. I find my center. Creative process is my peace. Art frees me from within the liminal experience. I know the truth about who I am because I paint.
Looking Around in Liminal Places
We cannot go backwards or forwards from the in-between spaces we find ourselves: the liminal spaces that can be an uneasy and disquieting place for many. This blog is about embracing the liminal “Right Now” with a quiet ease.
Swimming and Flying Through Time
You can think about yesterday and sprint towards tomorrow, but the “right now” is most important: liminality’s lesson for all of us. Today, we can do our best to learn this lesson. We can be who we were made to be. We don’t have to be concerned with yesterday, today, or tomorrow. We can just be. It only matters that we don’t let time hold us back from what “right now” holds and that we help others join us in seeing that this is true. Read this blog to learn more.
Liminality: Making Things the Same but Different
Do you notice that things have changed? Do you also see what hasn’t changed and anticipate what lies ahead in “Tomorrow”? Do you look for consistency in a world that’s constantly evolving? Consistency is what the liminal artist finds in the middle of it all: what’s happening in the “Right Now.” For the art maker, the essence of being a liminal artist is seeing things from the present moment while navigating “Yesterday” and “What’s Next.” This blog is about always noticing what came before and what lies ahead while creatively expressing the reality of “Right Now.”