Modern
Liminality




Liminality refers to a threshold, passageway or tunnel from one space to the next. It also refers to transitions in life–– a birth, marriage or death––an event that will change your daily existence, and throw your routine in turmoil.

Every society has rituals to help community members go through these transitions. There are frameworks in place that remind us (as participants of funerals and weddings), that others have gone through these transitions before us, and others will go through these transitions after us, and we are part of a larger structure called society that will continue on much the same.



Title: A Hui Hou
Materials: Acrylic, tracing paper, pen and ink on canvas




“Community is something for which we have no name or concept, something that issued at once from a much more extensive communication than that of mere social bond...and from much more piercing and dispersed segmentation of this same bond, often involving much harsher effects (solitude, rejection, admonition, helplessness) than what we expect from a communitarian minimum in the social bond.” -Jean-luc Nancy

“Death is the true community of mortal beings, their impossible community” -Jean-luc Nancy


Title: Three
Materials: Acrylic, oil and pastel on canvas





Rachel DeBoard — Highland Park, MI