Transitory Bodies

What I've learned from the liminal space and how my work helps me navigate a relationship to the invisible

Photo by Chimera Singer

Exactly one year ago from the day of this publication, I woke up in the morning and spontaneously decided to move back to New York City from the Hudson Valley, where I had been living for the better part of a year. My decision to move North had been spontaneous in the same way: a rash decision that stood the weight of my favorite litmus test: “Is this a choice that will bring me into conversation with the liminal space?” An easier, and potentially more accurate, way to ask that question is: “Is this an irrational choice that is slightly impossible and will get me into a little bit of trouble?” If the answer is yes to the above, chances are I will move forward with said opportunity. Both experiences were a calling card from what I like to think of as “the liminal space”, the invisible world that threads through the one we perceive, and which is the conductor orchestrating many of our best decisions - it is what leads us to thrust our stake in the ground, to take the risks that will shape who we become, and that require that we stand up for something and put ourselves through the fire in order to learn what it is exactly that we are made of. It is an intelligence that lives both inside and outside of us, our desires that are not shaped by the external world, but are uniquely attuned to our path.