The Spaces Between is a digital exhibition concluding two weeks of intensive creative research at The Space Department Residency in Nara City, Japan. It is a collaborative animation project between myself and my husband Chris Schultz. Our time in Nara coincided with Obon, a period when the boundary between life and death is believed to thin. We sought to understand Obon through its practices and atmosphere, considering how it relates to memory, ancestral return, liminality, and impermanence. Recurring themes in both of our practices.

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