Liminal Spaces, continued...

A weekly breifing from Christian helped me to re-evaluate my approach to the the Liminal Project.  I have been feeling that I was thinking a little too much about the synaptic gap, and the papier mache model that I have been working upon.
So, it would be worth my while to pusue some other threads this week, and not get too bogged down on just one piece of work.  I can always come back to it, once the various ideas have started to crystalise, so I made the decision to explore a little wider.  To perhaps move away from the literal meaning of Liminal, as taken from the origins of the word in an anthropological context, and explore conceptual contexts instead.

A suggested course of exploration would be (to paraphrase Christian),

"First, loose yourself, by taking any direction (metaphorically) and then put yourself into a place that you recognise,  in order to find yourself again".

I continued to look at the suggested Tate Gallery shots, for David Shrigley, Rachel Whiteread, David Blake, Paul Noble and Ed Ruscha.  All these artists work (or worked), in the liminal.  This included subjects such as Play, The Physical, Spiritual, Thoughts, and even car parks!

Coincidentally, I have also noticed that David Shrigley has just published a rather interesting book....;

I then got further inspiration from a one to one meeting with Christian, later in the day.  He recognised that my Synapse model was providing further metaphor for gaps and transfers, but I also have reflected since our conversation and I felt that he recognised my underlying desire to generally communicate; to provide knowledge transfers, as the backbone to my work.  If this was in fact what Christian was thinking, then I had (maybe unknowingly at the time) succeeded in the subliminal message I was trying to convey.

I was guided to look at a few more contemporary artists that might fit well with the genre I have been working within.  Namely, Martin Smith, "Laikaland";  Jim Bond,  and Bruce Lacey.

There is also a further opportunity that Jo Blaker suggested to me, to look at the work of Dominic Wilcox, and RCA Designer, who will be exhibiting at the "Creative Calderdale" exhibition in January.  Jo also gave me another "Bulb ON" moment (i.e. somewhat epiphinal), by recommending that I could explore more through...

                                     PLAY....
                                                            ....CHANCE....
                                                                                        ..... And take more RISKS!!!

Yep, that seems to sum me up quite well as to what I need to do.

Jo suggested a number of books that could be of use, and I enclude them here for my own future reference...  Chance, by Margaret Iverson;  "You'll Never Know"  (Drawing and Random Interference) by Krokatsis, (Hudd Uni Library reference 702.8 KRO;  and finally "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards (1982) Ref 741.2EDW.