{"id":1224,"date":"2024-05-10T01:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T01:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/tsag\/?page_id=1224"},"modified":"2024-05-23T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T22:52:08","slug":"liminal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dept.keene.edu\/tsag\/liminal\/","title":{"rendered":"LIMINAL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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April 12 – May 3, 2024<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

LIMINAL<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Paintings by Keith Mills<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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A liminal state can be defined as an in-between state, a threshold where a transformative experience is possible but has yet to occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been thinking much about this state recently. In so many ways, our world is on a threshold (a precipice might be a better word) with gigantic potential for change that could be either miraculous or disastrous environmentally, politically, and spiritually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What will we do? What kind of world awaits? What will we sacrifice? How will we heal our brokenness? What kind of people are we?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these questions envelop me when I go into my studio. So my paintings are infused with this threshold age we live in. On a more intimate level, this transitional space is also how I find myself in relation to my work. There is always an element of uncertainty, fear, and anticipation in picking up a brush or pencil or a tube of paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I\u2019m fortunate in the process, I will lose a sense of time and something mysterious and wondrous will take place where anything can happen – where the painting can go either way, forward or backward. It is this state that I feel most alive in. For here, I feel the painting can reveal its vital spirit. If I am truly present at that moment with an open heart, I can respond and back and forth it goes until all the answers to questions are no longer important. There is just a canvas filled with light and color, shape, and line that has a life of its own to live out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I\u2019ll meet you there.’ – Rumi”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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