From My Mouth
Into Your Lungs
Into Your Lungs
silk, thread, airbrushed acrylic
Varied dimensions
Varied dimensions
2021
From My Mouth Into Your Lungs materialises a gesture of breath. Amorphous layers of airbrushed silk are suspended above the ground—between aliveness and lifelessness—drawing on the intimacy and entanglement of air.
This invisible substance floating between us is exchanged between organisms and humans in a reciprocal cycle that provides the means to survival. Both grounded and 'heavenly', the focus of breath draws us into our body while the air escapes and carries our words and substance across landscapes and into the ether, reminding us of the endless and expansive ways we are connected. A rich medium rather than empty space, the air provokes a wide scope for seeing as these sensuous qualities become perceptible.
Using air as a medium, soft airbrushed colour is caught on the surface of luminescent white silk. Hushed words that reference bodily, vegetal and bacterial elements fall across the layers and dissolve into space. Transparent panels are stitched together creating unity - a lightness as well as draped density. The fabric folds, seamlines, and markings show the interior of a corporeal shape, taking up space
and disrupting the forgetting of the invisible
medium of air.
This invisible substance floating between us is exchanged between organisms and humans in a reciprocal cycle that provides the means to survival. Both grounded and 'heavenly', the focus of breath draws us into our body while the air escapes and carries our words and substance across landscapes and into the ether, reminding us of the endless and expansive ways we are connected. A rich medium rather than empty space, the air provokes a wide scope for seeing as these sensuous qualities become perceptible.
Using air as a medium, soft airbrushed colour is caught on the surface of luminescent white silk. Hushed words that reference bodily, vegetal and bacterial elements fall across the layers and dissolve into space. Transparent panels are stitched together creating unity - a lightness as well as draped density. The fabric folds, seamlines, and markings show the interior of a corporeal shape, taking up space
and disrupting the forgetting of the invisible
medium of air.