Liminal State w/ Cath Simard

‘Liminal State’ is a collaborative artwork between Ryan Koopmans and Cath Simard that explores the transitional phase of wakefulness to sleep. This in-between moment of consciousness occurs during the onset of sleep, often blurring imagination with reality and creating a hallucinatory phenomenon for the senses. The artists combine their visual techniques by fusing photography and 3D animation, merging the notions of fact and fiction throughout the layers of the artwork. A dreamlike metamorphosis between what is real and what is an illusion is amplified by the darkness of night and the blending of light from both inside and outside. The concepts of place and time are suspended, as the foreground depicts an abandoned building in the country of Georgia photographed by Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell, and the background depicts a mountain range photographed on the other side of the world in Patagonia by Cath Simard. The images are tied together through the implementation of animated plants and atmospheric effects. The piece features a musical score created by Swedish musician Karl David Larson.