• Annat
• Disturbance
• Single Track Road
• Light
• Swing
• Domestic Hiss
• La La Na
• Matta
• Pasqua
• Losing Gravity
• Bitter Cold
• Breath

Lisa O'Brien

Breath 2004

Video/sound - 1 minute

Breath was made in the room where I gave birth to my first child. It's an ordinary room in a terraced inner city house. It doesn't make scientific sense but metaphysically the room had to make space for another consciousness to enter the world and it felt as if the air in the room had been pushed aside to let a new physical presence into the space. In the piece we can hear the sound of a baby breathing. All we see is the view of the curtains moving slightly in the wind but its obvious that there is another presence in the room which is the person behind the camera. The sound in the piece measures out time rhythmically but there is a quiet tension in the piece and the viewer is drawn to becoming aware of their own presence within the piece and the rhythm of their own breath alongside that of the sound track thus sensing different consciousnesses and realities.