Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Liminal Space: Shoot corridors head on in one point perspective with nobody present
- Type
- Set in Liminal Space's manner (Keep the existing wayfinding signs and add no new lettering), and let Staged Photography's lettering (Make the text in the frame as a prop rather than borrowing a typeface) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Liminal Space's material (Greenish fluorescent white, dated flooring, damp reflections, weak shadows); bring in exactly one thing from Staged Photography (Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big).
- Colour
- Build on #d1c58a, #718074, #292a28 and admit one accent from #e4ddd2, #92705e, #2c2623.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Liminal Space The more unusual the building, the less it touches memory, because the sense of having been here only arrives in ordinary places everyone has passed through.
- Staged Photography Staging that only imitates a natural record leaves the assumption that photographs record reality untouched, and the whole reason for constructing the scene disappears.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Liminal Space (Aesthetic, late-2010s–) and its accent from Staged Photography (Technique, 19th century– / 1970s revival). Structural cues: Empty corridors; Fluorescent light; Dated interiors; Public space after midnight. Accent cues, used sparingly: Constructed scenes; Props; Cinematic lighting; Deliberate artificiality. Composition: Shoot corridors head on in one point perspective with nobody present. Type and lettering: Keep the existing wayfinding signs and add no new lettering. Let one material quality come from the second style: Built sets or models, cinematic lighting, large format shot and printed big. Mood: Calm, Nostalgia, Rebellion, Luxury, Play. Color: build on #d1c58a, #718074, #292a28 with a single accent drawn from #e4ddd2, #92705e, #2c2623. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Liminal Space late-2010s– / Aesthetic / Internet Aesthetics
Photographs transitional spaces empty when people ought to be in them, drawing out déjà vu, loneliness and the sense that time has stopped.
- Staged Photography 19th century– / 1970s revival / Technique / Photographic Genres
Composes scene, figure, props and light before the shutter, shaking the very premise that photographs record reality.
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