The work, entitled breathe, represents through its form and colour a pair of interlinked systems continuously at work in the human body, inhalation, and exhalation. In the wall a pair of pixelated large circles are interconnected via a stream of smaller circles – enamel roundels - in alternating colours of blue/greens and burnt orange/purples in high saturation. The two larger circles, one blue dominant, the other red, are linked through multiple crossovers show the inextricable links between our inhale and exhale breath.

I have used binary encoding to insert words into an otherwise graphic artwork. The 0’s and 1’s of high saturation read ‘inhale’ in blue shades, and ‘exhale’ in orange/mustard. Arranging the words to flow into one another in a cycle of inhale-exhale-inhale-exhale then created spaces that I filled with two other words, ‘draw’ and ‘exchange’, shown in roundels of blue/green and purple hues. These unrepeated words describe the intake and output systems of breathing, as we draw each new breath to exchange the products of each spent one.