Hello and welcome!

Notes from the strangest room in the house.

This is Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom.

I’m Shelli. I’m an artist living in a tiny apartment with beautiful light and a cat named Squash. I paint as a form of inquiry and memory and also as a way of holding quiet conversations with myself that help me grow. I often notice patterns, shifts, and recurrences before I know what they mean. It’s how I find meaning and reflect on personal growth.

The writing here orbits my paintings—part reflection, part ramble, sometimes a fieldnote or monologue that helps me see what I’m making and why. It’s all part of the same conversation, even if it doesn’t arrive in order.

You’re in the bathroom now. I’ve left the light on for you.

What is Dispatches from the Liminal Bathroom?

A publication of creative monologues. The paintings are the subject, with reflections on process, becoming, and all the strange space in between.

These are slow dispatches. Not answers, not strategies—just fieldnotes from the in-between. A private threshold. A portal where thought resets and the echo becomes the idea.

The kind of place where your attention slips sideways, and something unexpected starts to make sense.

There’s always another door in a liminal space.

Why subscribe?

Because it’s quiet here.
Because not everything needs to be a brand.
Because the real stuff usually shows up in the in-between.
Free to read, slow to send, evolving with time.
No urgency. Just me.

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