Liminal Ottawa COVID-19

The title of this series, Liminal Ottawa COVID-19, comes from the Latin, limen, meaning a ‘threshold’, and embraces its dual sense of: 1. relating to or situated at a sensory threshold: barely perceptible or capable of eliciting a response visual stimulus; and 2. relating to, or being an intermediate state, phase, or condition: in-between, transitional. This project explores Ottawa lodged in a liminal space arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. It ponders the mystery and power of the city’s transition from what has been to what will be. The ideas and practices that emerge from liminal periods can be of extreme importance and led to significant social change. It can be a period of creativity when people ask radical questions and where the unquestioned grasp on life is loosened. What does the future hold as Ottawa navigates this unsettling time? The answers we contemplate today may not resemble what we might have stated a year ago. As the pandemic shapes our lives and Ottawa wrestles with uncertainty and inequity, will this time be a period where we ‘truly see’? Will the community use it as an opportunity to embrace risk and vulnerability, and challenge the norm?

All pieces are available for purchase, in signed and numbered limited editions. Prices vary with image size, media type, series, and edition # in the series. Images can be acquired mounted and framed, or unframed, in a variety of standard print sizes as well as in custom sizes.

Contact Glenn Bloodworth for pricing and other information, or to discuss your interests.