Bellucci’s Liminality Reality

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Summary

BELLUCCI’S LIMINALITY REALITY Liminal spaces are the places between places—empty malls after closing, endless hotel corridors, deserted terminals, vacant schools, silent parking garages, abandoned recreation spaces, empty pools, and strange environments that feel familiar even when you know you’ve never been there. For their next book project, Valeri Caronna and Vinny Bellucci turn that unsettling phenomenon into an urban-exploration investigation. And Vinny isn’t going in empty-handed. His black leather 17-inch laptop backpack becomes part of the expedition itself—carrying the laptop, research, photographs, notes, and whatever evidence Val and Vinny bring back from the liminal spaces they investigate. It starts as practical exploration gear. But once the Tre Quarti records begin connecting modern liminal spaces to locations documented generations ago, what comes home inside that backpack may matter just as much as where they found it. Val follows the feeling. Vinny follows the records. Together they enter empty places built for people who aren’t there anymore—and begin discovering that the Five Families understood liminality long before the modern world had a name for it. What makes a liminal space feel so wrong? Is it nostalgia? Isolation? Architecture? Or are some of these places genuinely caught between realities? BELLUCCI’S LIMINALITY REALITY Valeri Caronna & Vi