A room with a view, a window to other worlds. When the outside becomes inside and inside becomes outside, what marks the shift?
A colleague shares her calendar so you can find a time for a meeting. You see her counting down to something, making notes to herself. When you’re inside it’s hard to zoom out. Your face lags, your connection drops, your voice peels apart from your body. Can you hear me? Do you see me? We haven’t seen each other in six months / we’ve seen more of each other than usual. Our bedrooms, kitchen tables, bookshelves, blurring at the edges.
When you’re feeling low, try walking around the house like the girl who interrupted her dad’s BBC interview: arms swinging, torso tipping left and right, hips to shoulders. Interrupt your housemate’s meetings. See your friends on a TV screen. An imaginary outside, suffused by a realistic inside—each boundary collapsing in a frisson of disbelief.
LIMINAL presents INTERIORS, our third digital series of writing, art and more.
This series features work by Darlene Silva Soberano, flower boy 卓颖贤, Hannah Wu, Isobel D'Cruz Barnes, James Gales, Jamie Marina Lau, Jessica Zhan Mei Yu, Jennifer Nguyen, Meg O'Shea, Panda Wong, and Tracy Chen.
Interiors has been edited by Cher Tan, Adalya Nash Hussein & Leah Jing McIntosh, with design by Anny Luo.
