A cell within the body of the earth
It begins with breath:
The syllables of starlight
An ancient language of the cosmos
Uttered by grasses and forests, mountains and bodies
From this chorus
An atmosphere is sung into being
Boundless, caressing;
These are the tides we live in
Nourishing us inside and out
In ripples and ricochets
Immersing us in abundance
As the world breathes out
Life begins to take shape
A tangle of essences
streaming beneath your skin
Blurring the outline of where you end and begin
On this unending journey
Time shades off
Into moments of matter
Breath takes flight,
merging and emerging,
to an infinite rhythm
And somewhere in this cascade
Is you:
Life nested within life
A cell in the body of the earth
Dissolving the boundary
Of who is breathing who
– Marshmallow Laser Feast and Daisy Lafarge
How to watch
This work has been digitised and can be viewed in the display above.
Collection
Not in ACMI's collection
Previously on display
14 April 2024
ACMI: Gallery 4
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
LN195689
Object Types
Digital
Materials
Single-channel video, two-channel audio Duration: 12 min, looped