Liminal Spaces

After watching the excellent short film “The Backrooms”, I saw a comment where someone mentioned liminal spaces. I remembered hearing that term before, but had not ever looked into it. So I did some searching and found these great pieces on that term as well as the related “backrooms”:

• Liminal Spaces – Lost In Unknowable Loneliness of Modern Architecture
• Glitched out of Reality: Welcome to the Backrooms

The reason why we are fascinated with these images of vacant, abandoned, and eerie locations is that, for the most part, they represent the false promises of the modern era.

I think that might be same reason I have an interest in Vaporwave, the origins of which shared that idea of peeling back the veneer of the perfect portrayal of modern life that is so often promoted. As wide as Vaporwave is these days, some subgenres and offshoots do lean more towards trying to hold onto that comfortable view of the world rather than destroying it, which makes for a nice mix.