Abstract

LOTZ, Colette  and  COMBRINK, Louisemarié. Creating sacred spaces: A study of storyworld building. IT [online]. 2025, n.39, pp.1-23. ISSN 2617-3255.  https://doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2025/n39a3.

This article reflects on artworks that Colette Lotz produced for the Stairways and Ruins exhibition. The article is structured along the lines of pre-production, production, and post-production as the practice-led methodological approach. The works were made using photographs of clouds and other structures taken by the artist and main author,¹ and rendered digitally into symmetrical reflections. Thus, sacred spaces were created - the works predominantly show skyscapes and are therefore "celestial". Because of this structuring of the works, the imagery becomes abstract and otherworldly, appearing like Rorschach Inkblot tests. We relate the works to sacred spaces as storyworlds. The term storyworld stresses the constructive and imaginative nature of the works.

Keywords : Digitally manipulated photography; liminal spaces; postclassical narratology; practice-led research; Rorschach inkblot test; sacred space; skyscape; storyworlds.

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