tim lytvinenko

Limits

2019

mixed media photo transfers on to canvas

Liminality was first used to describe rites of passage where the participants “stand at the threshold” between their previous self and a new self. This generally happens in three steps: event, change, rebirth.

The phase of change, or liminal period, can be destructive. Participants are often brought to question their self where the normal constraints to thought, self understanding and behavior are undone. Allowing for large amounts of change in small amounts of time.

The third phase, Postliminal, by nature is constructive. Often seen as a rebirth back into society, postliminal phases try to make sense of the changes. Questioning memories, limits and equilibriums, the participant finds this new self. Knowing they could not have become this without being their previous self first.

Limits

1a : something that bounds, restrains, or confines 

b : the utmost extent 

2 : a determining feature or differentia in logic

3 : a prescribed maximum or minimum amount

4 : something that is exasperating or intolerable