Breathing Through

The actual pandemic has set a somber tone for people used to showing art and creating experiences—dancers, musicians, performers, filmmakers. In the absence of public events like these, virtual space has become one of the most immersive sensory experiences available to us. As people acclimate to having more and more emotional and contemplative experiences mediated by technology, a work like Breathing Through is a marker of the times. Traveling through a digitally constructed world, surrounded by scenes cultivated from history, autobiography, nature, the objects one experiences become timeless symbols. Logic and perspective matter less than the journey of life itself. Images aren’t supporting structures; the road we have chosen is only relative. But the meaning of our personal narrative, like the viewpoint one chooses to see in the video, is ultimately grounded in the breath.