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A Pyschological In-Depth Look at What it Really Means to be Nostalgic

Here's an article to explain a tad bit more about this subject:

To feel the nostolgia...

To understand more...

Click on each image for a better view if you wish.

- The edge of a dollhouse-styled victorian home.

- A twisted, checkered hallway.

- An large, but empty ballpit.

- A trippy-looking, circus room.

Now that you've had a moment to look, do any of these make you feel nostalgic? If they do, you may be falling under the influence of the liminal space art technique. Long story short, when considering how the liminal space art style works, it essentially acts as such a method of art that makes you feel like you've seen the places presented at some point or another, and you feel nostalgic for them, but you aren't quite sure why.

In some ways, most photography captured like the pictures above could almost be considered liminal space style, such as the Citadel Image from Lab 3 for example, but liminal styles typically focus on a sort of isolated or optical styled image to play tricks on your eyes and mind. I had specifically chosen here to talk about this art style, as I felt it was something worth of interest to share that I have in some way always known about, but never technically learned about it until now.