Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Moving out of Liminal space, - Searching for the "queues and triggers"

 In continuance of the blog of Monday 9th, I took a little more time out to read an academic article following a University of Huddersfield library search, albeit for further rather maudlin consideration, namely "Stephen Palmer (2012) ‘Dead but not departed yet’: the exploration of liminal space in Jim Crace's Being Dead (1999), Mortality: Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 17:1, 51-63, DOI: 10.1080/13576275.2012.651833.
This particular article backed up the research I had already found on Arnold Gannep and Victor Turner, with a critical view by Stephen Palmer of the novel "Being Dead", published in 1999 and written by the English writer Jim Crace.  The novel exploits the potential of literary narrative for exploring the liminal space between dying and death.
Whilst this theme seems to be of interest, I need to contemplate further to try and represent how the theme could be represented either visually or sensually.  My imagination is currently stuck in the visual image of the cemetery, particularly after my friends funeral and internment.  I chose to take some randomized views of a cemetery (not related to my friends!) for further stimulus.

Maybe I could work with these images to create something new?

I thought that the somber influences of death and graveyards must give way to a brighter future.  This liminal change, this threshold adaptation could be represented.  I am working on a diptych of two scenes of mortality and what comes from it, i.e. the trigger or queue for a new dawn or new season of hope.

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