A new boulevard of nearly identical two-storey houses in a repetitive color palette, sat upon rolling hills, at the edge of Richmond, Kentucky. Referred to online as ‘Copy-Paste’ and ‘Barbie’ houses, this neighbourhood looks finished and not yet lived-in at the same time.
Made famous by it’s unsettling juxtaposition: an innocent, bubblegum pink children’s play park shrouded in darkness – that seemed to evoke a universal sense of Anemoia.
This appears to be a partially edited image, with the original photo being taken from the top of Boulderbrook Drive, looking down towards Solitude Street, on a relatively new residential neighbourhood in suburban Toronto, Canada.
A small, old, Esso gas station in the snow at twilight: old pumps, picnic table, empty forecourt, surrounded by trees – the kind of roadside still that looks like a paused memory.
The original post featuring this liminal neighbourhood street in Nebraska appears to be on Reddit.
A compact outdoor pool with a row of bright blue slides twirling into the water, has become a well-known image amongst liminal location communities. The small water-park sitting empty under a hard, cloudless sky, has generated a common sense of Anemoia, as if triggering a universal core childhood memory.
Original artwork created by gbrltvrst, the house in the image was taken from a streetview screenshot of Drummond Drive, Milford, DE 19963.
A now-defunct mid-century hotel in Troy, Michigan, whose empty corridors, dated décor and institutional atmosphere made it a popular real-world visual stand-in for Backrooms Level 5 “Terror Hotel”.
A labyrinthine house of open courtyards and narrow sheltered spaces set high in Lisbon’s Alfama district, where medieval walls meet contemporary restraint and one patio is filled with water, creating a liminal sequence of outdoor rooms under the open sky.
