Boundless Wonders — The Liminal Space Between Life And Death
Wenli Zhong
This thesis explores humanity's enduring curiosity about existence beyond death. It speculates that a liminal dimension where departed souls retain consciousness is distinct from conventional afterlife concepts. This dimension connects the living and the deceased, potentially enabling communication through consciousness. Some examples of mediums through which conscious communication can be achieved are memories or dreams. While trying to refrain from confirming this dimension’s existence or the effectiveness of conscious communication, I do not aim to prove the existence of this dimension at the level of mainstream science or to question death's finality as defined at this level. However, I do intend to question whether death could offer more than physical closure, proposing the liminal world as a potential compromise for dialogue across dimensions.
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For millennia, humanity has pondered the mysteries beyond life, yearning to connect with the unseen. This video invites people on a dual journey through everyday world and a liminal space, a realm veiled from the senses yet intimately connected to their own. Through the left channel, this video delves into the depths of human experience, exploring the longing for connection, the whispers of memory, and the echoes of dreams that hint at a hidden dimension. The right channel reveals glimpses of this new world, a dimension woven from collective desire and imagination, where the boundaries between life and death dissolve. This project aims to explore the essence of speculative dimensions. It seeks to challenge perceptions and beckons us to embrace the ambiguities that lie between realms. As the two channels converse, a dialogue unfolds.
Book Design: Boundless Wonders — A Book About The Liminal Space Between Life And Death
Posters: Umbilical Cord #01, #02
The Umbilical Cord is a series of monochrome Risograph prints which uses black (#01) and bright red (#02). It combines a large number of symbols to seek ultimate attribution and to discuss a potential compromise for dialogue across dimensions. Boundless Wonders — A Book About The Liminal Space Between Life And Death
Zine: “Encyclopaedia”
In this abnormal world, people may self-construct the cognition and thinking in the symbolic system. Words (morphology and structure) no longer reflect things, or exist in dependence on things. Word (morphology and structure), as its own representation mode and its own representation content, has become the subject of knowledge. Things, on the edge of knowledge, send out weak similarity signals to indicate their own existence. In the liminal space, entities could exist as hyperreal beings, transcending the boundaries of physical existence. These entities might be pure representations of consciousness or the collective memories and desires of the living. In the liminal space, identities may take on a life of their own. This means that the order of things, the logic of existence, etc. are not limited by the real world. Further explanation is that abnormal can become normal, unreasonable can also become reasonable.
Typedesign Specimen: Bird Bone
Bird Bone is a serif typeface inspired by the morphology and structure of bird bones. It has the properties of a bird's bone - it looks fragile, but it's actually very strong. Like the contrast between the torso and limb bones of a bird, the font structure has a distinct contrast in thickness and is connected using bone-like joint shapes.
Established and Non-established Cognition
Established cognition exists in the waking state. It is active while we are consciously doing everything. Non-established cognition is a state in which we are unconscious or lacking consciousness, such as during sleep. As a result, they occur in the day and night respectively.