From Breath

2024, silverpoint on canvas, performance, sound, silver flute.

‘From Breath’ is a durational silverpoint drawing project created through breath, movement, and sound. Developed for Infinite: Dobell Drawing Biennial 2024, curated by Anne Ryan, this first iteration of the work comprises two drawings and accompanying sound recordings—one created in the studio over seven hours and another performed live for an hour a day over seven days at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Playing a giant silver flute of my own making, I stepped in rhythm around a black canvas, exhaling as I dragged the flute’s silverpoint tip across its surface. The flute left a delicate silver trace, marking each breath and movement. The sound of the flute—at once resonant and fragile—intertwines with the visual traces of breath, recorded in both drawing and sound. The completed drawings exist as physical records of this embodied process, while the accompanying sound file preserves the resonance of breath, tracing its presence and absence. From Breath explores the materiality and resonance of breath and the interplay between sound, movement, and mark-making—leaving traces that are both structured and ephemeral.

Listen to an excerpt of the sound recording below.