My work exists in the space between worlds where the seen and unseen meet. I’m drawn to thresholds, portals, and forms that suggest a passage beyond the familiar and mile markers along the inward journey. Liminal Veil explores this in-between state: a place where identity loosens, time bends, and we step into something vast and unknowable yet familiar in dreams.
As the protagonist of the series, I am dwarfed by the desert, becoming both shadow and void; a moving mystery that allows the landscape itself to take centre stage. My monoliths stand alongside me, underscoring the immensity of the environment and the fragile scale of the human form. They frame the land, create gateways, and mark rites of passage along a journey. The soundscape functions as an unseen guide, slowing the breath, shifting perception, and heightening spatial awareness while the figure leads viewers on a universal inward journey.
The motion stills, suspended cloaks and hats, the infinity stairway, and the soundscape each act as portals in their own way. They echo one another in form and spirit: black against pale desert washes of colour, minimal yet monumental, geometric yet weightless. Together, they form a sequence of encounters with liminality—the body as apparition, garments as ghosts, sound as invisible architecture. Within this sequence, figure and monolith move as one, sometimes present, sometimes implied, becoming void or grand form, directing attention to the infinite horizon, the negative space of the land, and back again.
This approach, rooted in surreal spatial minimalism, distils form and perception to their essence until absence speaks as clearly as presence. The work seeks not resolution but the opening of a door to something unnamed. If a feeling lingers long after, the work has fulfilled its task.
Petecia Le Fawnhawk
