Liminal
colour HD video 8’56” stereo sound, text, 2018-2022
(headphones recommended)
Location: Suffolk
Liminal is a short moving image work takes guidance from the ghost as a liminal figure, in response to the uncanny experience of being in a village church that has traced eight centuries of births and deaths. The work imagines being trapped between worlds, tangled in the passing of time, the awe and fear inspired by the church’s light, space, acoustic and curious arcane details, within and without. The hours of empty silence fall as light and shadow in this redolent, neglected place, enhancing its eerie, hypnotic sensation. The ghost provides a poetic pathway for disappearing from oneself.
Illicitly,
breathe the dust
listen to the acoustic and inaudible
look out from within
exist and disappear like centuries of congregational souls:
arcane architecture, toll of time, neglect and decay,
mysterious, redolent, tangible atmosphere