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Sources & Boundaries

The original VIS-0015 description was blank. This page separates preserved source identity, newly authored editorial synthesis, external scholarship and media-rights status.

VIS-0015Field-guide posturenewly authored expansion
Open preserved source record
Source boundary

The original VIS-0015 description was blank. This release preserves that absence and labels the universe’s explanatory framework as newly authored expansion.

Source expansion rule

Blank means blank.

No missing source synopsis has been reconstructed or implied.

Preserved material

Title: “Liminal.” Collection: “Visual Concepts, Themes, and Art Styles.” Section: “General Visual Concepts.” Variation: none supplied. Theme tags: “Art, Design, and Creativity” and “Surreal, Dream, Liminal, and Experimental.” Format tag: “Other / Hybrid.” Rights-review flag: false.

Newly authored elaboration

The traits, contrasts, composition controls, interpretation lenses, rubric and discovery trails were created for this release candidate. They are labeled editorial synthesis unless a specific source ID is attached.

Evidence register

Sources actually used.

No citation is invented; external links are direct source/DOI destinations.

canonical source

ICU source record VIS-0015 — Liminal

The canonical source description is blank. Title, collection, section, theme tags and format tags are preserved; all explanatory copy in this universe is newly authored expansion.

Status
preserved
Source ID
SRC-SOURCE-VIS0015
Link
/concepts/vis-0015-liminal/
educational secondary

On “Liminality” — Bodies and Structures 2, NC State University

Used for the historical/theoretical bridge from van Gennep’s rites of passage to Turner’s “betwixt and between” framing. The universe does not treat anthropological liminality and the contemporary visual aesthetic as identical.

Status
external_source
Source ID
SRC-NCSU-LIMINALITY
Link
https://scalar.chass.ncsu.edu/bodies-and-structures-2/conceptual-introduction
peer reviewed research

Diel & Lewis (2022), “Structural deviations drive an uncanny valley of physical places”

Open-access Journal of Environmental Psychology research. Supports a limited claim: structural deviations from familiar built-environment patterns predicted uncanniness in the reported experiments. It does not validate a universal “liminal score.”

Status
external_source
Source ID
SRC-DIEL-2022
Link
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101844
journal article

Peter Heft (2021), “Betwixt and Between: Zones as Liminal and Deterritorialized Spaces”

Used as an interpretive source on zones, thresholds and liminal spatial thinking; presented as scholarship/criticism rather than empirical validation of an internet aesthetic.

Status
external_source
Source ID
SRC-HEFT-2021
Link
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10576341

Media & rights

No external imagery is bundled.

This avoids uncertain rights while still giving the universe a visual language.

Authored diagrams

Corridor/threshold scenes are HTML/CSS diagrams created in this candidate. They are explicitly labeled as diagrams, not documentary photographs.

Future media rule

Any future photograph, scan, artwork or generated image should carry source, creator, license/rights status, media type and documentary-vs-synthetic labeling before publication.