what is ‘Margo’?

Margo is the brink that looks back at us. It is the glistening horizon, grassy verge, stoney shore; that which falls away.

In Margo we discover resonant traces of the infinite; that which can not be captured but which arrives at us in vertiginous ecstatic Echo ~ always potential, always unfolding; potentially infinite.

Margo is a threshold, liminal; not quite dissolution.

The meeting of difference requires lubrication. Surely, Margo is a wet place.

In his seminal work Les Rites de Passage (1909), the French ethnographer and folklorist Arnold van Gennep identifies liminality as the intermediate stage in a tripartite structure of ritual practice. Here, liminality (from the latin limen meaning ‘threshold’), describes the state inhabited by individuals undergoing transformation from one social status to another, who in the interstices of transition, defy the established classifications of the society to which they belong. As neither one thing, nor the other, they become unrecognizable; distanced from the structural core and rendered marginal. Upon their reintegration to the center, they will again become just one thing.

The liminal is therefore a paradox, born of difference that cannot be reduced to unity. This irreducibility preserves the relationship between things. We can find truths in the binds of paradox because it is through relations that things betray their essence. These relations are not static but continual, a movement through articulation; essence is the way we move.