This work explores liminality—the experience of existing at thresholds, in spaces of transition and transformation where boundaries blur and certainties dissolve. These “in between” territories have pulled at me for as long as I can remember, long before I had language to name them. Through photography, digital manipulation, and durational practice, this work makes visible the threshold moments that define human existence but often go unwitnessed.
The technical approach mirrors the conceptual framework. The analog film process embodies liminality through its chemical transformations—light burning through emulsion just as experience burns through consciousness. Blur, light leaks, overexposure, and digital fragmentation serve as visual metaphors for the instability of perception and identity. Rather than seeking the sharp clarity that both analog and digital technology can provide, the work acknowledges that all representation is partial, that meaning hovers between recognition and mystery.
This body of work refuses contemporary demands for resolution and instant clarity. In our digital age of pristine definition and immediate access, these images insist on the value of ambiguity, on truths found not in what we can clearly see but in what remains beautifully, necessarily unclear. They suggest we are always in motion, always approaching but never quite arriving at understanding or identity.
Through sustained attention to threshold experiences—whether in individual lives, technological systems, natural cycles, or the passage of light—this work validates liminal spaces as worthy of wonder rather than discomfort. Rather than seeing liminality as a problem to solve or a phase to complete, it reveals threshold space as perhaps the most honest territory of human experience. The threshold spaces we usually overlook or hurry through might be where we most authentically live—always in the process of becoming, always moving but never arriving, finding meaning in the journey itself.