Project description

Liminal Space
Photographs printed on dibond
Variable dimensions

Blair Speed’s contribution to Tinworks 2020 comprises six photographs on Dibond that explore the idea of thresholds or transitional states. As Speed writes “Liminal Space is the in-between -- we aren’t what we were, we’re not what we will be.” In 2019 Speed’s husband, “died when a part of a mountain he was standing on broke off last July. He was 33 years old. He was, he is, my universe. We spent 10 years in physical form next to one another. He died. And, then, we all walked into a global pandemic.”

Each black-and-white image is shot in a landscape format, though Speed’s subject matter ranges from skyscapes to figure studies and still lifes. Together, they create a somber and mysterious horizon line that is at once reassuringly familiar and unsettlingly opaque. She writes, “My photography, like my life, has become groundless and now floats within the spectrums of light and dark. These images in transition, my life in transition, our world in transition: Liminal Space. This series holds the space for contradictions: the seen and the unseen, infinite love and infinite loss, light and dark, learning and unlearning, the split within the veils. These images of liminality hold moments in transition, transmogrification, and reflection; a hand on a horse, a best friend, who will die in a week, but the connection remains. A chair alone in a home that once was and now is going back to the earth, as we all will.”

ABOUT BLAIR SPEED

Blair Speed is a Bozeman-based photographer who “crafts intimate images that communicate beauty, empathy, and connection to life’s most simple, raw, and hidden moments.” She is also an endurance coach with a limited number of athletes working and expanding towards their individual goals each year.

Website: https://www.blairspeedcreative.com

@speedcoachingandcreative