Most of the pictures of liminal spaces I've seen show building interiors, but highway medians are a kind of rural liminal space that's fascinated me my whole life. The long strips of median in the middle of the interstate are often linear forests, at least in our part of the world. What creatures live there? What would it be like to explore these spaces?
@futurebird oh wait i think I answered wrong. I used to follow Abandoned on the bird site a while ago and also used to do this kind of thing IRL when I was much younger (hanging out in abandoned train yards etc). I am a long way north of 40!
The online liminal space appreciation and art communities are mostly about sharing images with an uncanny feeling of being "in between" ... a mix of nostalgia and the unsettling.
This reddit group where people vote on the "best" liminal images has typical examples:
@futurebird@CppGuy Interesting. I did not know this had a name (and I am 40+ and voted no) but now that I know what this is, I want to interact with more of it.
@Willow_Crow@futurebird >40 and I engaged with it IRL before it was Internet phenomenon, spending a lot of time in abandoned buildings either used as squats or for raves (or both) and spent a lot of time wandering through such spaces especially in the afternoons after the party was finished and there were few people around (although the squatters were sometimes followed around by an entire gang of local cats, a mix of pets and strays (one tomcat was later rehomed by a fish supplier))
Though my mom once heard me complain bitterly about how no matter how old I got I was still considered "young" and she explained "sometimes you're 60 and still 'young people'" ... grandma lived to 98 so.. OK well fine.
@futurebird@ireneista@mhoye I hit the magical retirement age this year — I’m not retiring — and I don’t see it as old as when my father was this age.
What does make me feel oldish is t(at today is my uncle’s funeral. I now realize that in my family I am now in the oldest generation. Funny how my wife is the same age as me, her aunt and father are around the same age my uncle (well over 90), are going strong and not about to kick the bucket.
@futurebird huh. For my own part it put a name to an idea I’ve certainly seen a lot of - I’ve been in a lot of airports, of varying degrees of quality - and that name worked out as a gateway drug to the aesthetics wiki and some other design-classification systems that have proven to be excellent Wikipedia-type rabbit holes. I’m not sure what “matters” means in this context but I’ve certainly enjoyed its addition to the lexicon