I really enjoyed the sentiment of the whole essay - that interesting things are happening in the in between places. Thinking about interstis was particularly interesting, as a friend of mine has just done research on liminality in relation to military deployments and how it affects the individual and their families. I think that this could be another angle to look at perhaps?
Could you explain what the relevance of the image is beyond it being about a religious ordination? How does this relate to toxic places and the military? Who is the individual? Why did you choose him rather than any other Roman Catholic holy man?Could you explain what interstitial time involves in the clergy or in the military?
This is a found image and it contrasts well with the other images in the essay - very different to the Van Gogh painting immediately beforehand and completely different to the other two images at the start of the essay. I feel like I want to know more about the people in the picture - what is happening? Did he have to wait three months between being upgraded (apologies if this is not the right term)?
I wonder if as a way of illustrating the point that you make - whether you could find a ceremony of a military chaplain? As that would bring together the religious aspect, the intertis and the military.
That toxic places are bodily experienced and that by removing the body from those places we become disjointed ourselves and don’t understand it. This removal can be part of a protection mechanism.
