Liminality
A graphic study on the liminal state of mind

Scope: Illustration, Graphic Study, Semiotics

Role: Personal project, worked on all aspects

Timeline: 2020

Medium: Ink on paper (manual sketches), Procreate (digital sketches), Canon 550D (photography)

This is a self-led project on Liminality - I am intrigued by how social distancing and lockdown have affected human beings. I have been following various news articles and social media on how it affects us mentally. So I set out to understand and learn how we as humans use the environment around us.

In this project, I tried applying the concept of semiotics to a scene and then illustrating it based on what I saw. I studied the liminal state of mind concerning people and spaces. It was to understand the concept of lateral thinking in terms of the state of mind of the subject in their environment.

The Journey

Evading conversations on public transport, consumed in one's own world through their personal devices. The journey and the people in itself become liminal.

The Shore

Spatially, the point of start of a beach to the start of the sea is liminal. This space where humans traverse to get to the water or to get to car is transitional, unless you aim to build sand castles!