breathe
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.
Year2024 Mediumporcelain enamel fired onto steel discs, acacia birch plywood with lime wash and clear satin polish, anodised black aluminium trim Dimensions4.856 x 2.211m EditionInstalled at Murdoch Square, Building B Lobby, Western Australia. SeriesInstallations
