'liminal third space'
|  open edition print of digital art by Carly Wanner-Hyde
|  printed on archival paper
| 5x7 in, 8x10in
|  made in 2026
 
I've been doing some intuitive making and painting lately, which means I'm stepping back from planning and figuring out an outcome, and instead beginning my process with an idea and an unfolding path.  I'm digging this piece's invitation of engagement to the viewer. it's enough information that we have some sort of understanding of the purpose of this place, of this room, and the viewer gets to decided what exactly it is. it could be an airport lounge, a cafe, a waiting room for a mechanic shop. The setting the viewer decides influences the feeling they get, almost like an invitation into the subconscious. The long rays of the sun signal to us that the sun is low in the sky, dawn or dusk, and again, the viewer, the participant, gets to decide whether it's the beginning of the day or the invitation to the evening. I love this way of seeing it as a scaffold, a playground, for the viewer to engage with. For me, there's a sense of being pulled towards something, of a feeling in my chest and throat when I look at it, an almost contradictory experience of feeling rest while in a liminal space.
 
What I like about what this piece offers as an opening is that it becomes an interactive process the viewer gets to decide the time of day, what the place is, who