• Beck Richins

Beck explores the transitory state between denial and action, while expressing feelings of escapism, unreality and disassociation. The work explores liminality as an unhealthy coping mechanism, a state where you can avoid taking the step between what you were and what you need to be. Placing yourself within the discomfort of this installation mirrors the discomfort of transforming your life. The work aims to use discomfort as a method to encourage the viewer to explore their own relation to themselves, and what is really in the way of becoming who they truly are.

This installation intends to engulf you in this in-between space, where you are trapped and unable to complete the transition. The painted wall invites you into this uncanny space, where nothing is as it should be. The dark and limited colour pallet of the work aims to incite feelings of looming dread. The work plays with narrative and sequential elements found in the publication, audio and moving image work to reflect notions of queer temporality.