{"id":1455,"date":"2024-04-28T14:18:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T19:50:54","slug":"living-in-liminal-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Living in Liminal Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-scaled.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1580 alignnone img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls3-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1576 alignnone img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls2-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls2.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photos above were taken on April 24, 2020 as the COVID lockdown was under way.\u00a0\u00a0 The world had started to resemble the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Backrooms\">back rooms<\/a>. Ever since then, I feel as if I have been living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liminal_space_(aesthetic)\">liminal space<\/a>. Looking back now, it does feel as if a barrier was crossed and there will be no turning back.\u00a0\u00a0 I am just starting to realize how much has been lost and how much has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The stores are restocked again most of the time,\u00a0 but I still shop late at night.\u00a0 What I once did to avoid crowds I now do out of habit.\u00a0 The photo below shows what the typical grocery store around here looks like at 9:00 pm.\u00a0 Sometimes I can traverse the whole store without running into another person.\u00a0 The coolers are all dark and I leave a trail of lights as I walk down the empty frozen food isle.\u00a0 I still feel like we are stuck in limimal space &#8211; something has been lost and nothing has replaced it yet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1577 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ls4-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photos above were taken on April 24, 2020 as the COVID lockdown was under way.\u00a0\u00a0 The world had started to resemble the back rooms. Ever since then, I feel as if I have been living in liminal space. Looking back now, it does feel as if a barrier was crossed and there will be [&hellip;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/?p=1455\" title=\"Permanent Link to: Living in Liminal Space\">\u00bbmore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tangentview.com\/TangentBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}