As part of my creative exploration for ‘Breathworks’, a digital project led by Lucy Sabin for Modern Art Oxford, I created a short 20 second film. As I walked the fields during Lockdown, I observed the gentle movement of the wind through the barley and likened it to natures breath around me. As I watched this movement, I became aware of the breath in my own body and its continuous relationship with nature. I returned home with footage which I slowed to exaggerate this movement. I added a short ambient music clip which I slowed down also. This captured the ‘feeling’ I had experienced looking at the wind ripple across the field, and the symbiotic awareness of my own breath.
Sabin, L. (2021). Following breathing. The Polyphony [online], January 8.
Breathwork’s portfolio – Lucy Sabin
Instagram Sheet – @artworlsbylucy
“In contrast to the apparently unlimited, global character of the technologically mediated world, the sensuous world – the world of our direct unmediated interactions is always local. The sensuous world is the ground on which we walk, the air we breathe.” (Abram, 2012, The Spell of the Sensuous)
Breathworks – Image 1 © Lucy Sabin
Barley Screen at MAO
Breathworks – Image 2 © Lucy Sabin
