American psychologist Abraham Maslow once observed, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat everything as if it were a nail.” His words remind us of the importance of expanding perception—of looking again at what feels familiar.

Liminal Dialogue begins from this premise. The project repositions the body in space to challenge our assumptions about water and land—about what is solid, what is fluid, and where we belong between them. It explores the tension and continuity between the grounded stability of terra firma and the shifting nature of aqua firma by suspending the body above water. This act of suspension invites movement across boundaries, prompting new forms of engagement with two environments that are distinct yet deeply intertwined.

Conceived as a spatial language for inhabiting the typically uninhabitable, Liminal Dialogue unfolds across the waterscapes of South-West Flanders. The interventions may appear as singular moments or as a network of sites connecting the River Lys to surrounding ecological and urban systems. Using traditional construction safety netting as a primary material, surfaces of inhabitation are stretched, draped, pinned, stilted, and shaped over and across bodies of water.

These tensile landscapes become spaces of rest, movement, play, and reflection—architectural instruments that reveal the shifting dialogue between land and water, body and environment, solidity and fluidity.