All the Air we can’t See (2020)
Plastic sheeting, tape, air
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All the Air we can’t See is a visualization of a vital necessity. It attempts to rise above the political discourse of the year, by literally and figuratively embodying the escape from natural disaster. We as a society have come face to face with the idea of air as a precious resource not only through the constant, raging fires, but also biologically. Being physically unable to breathe in multiple ways, through virus and physical human violence.
The material, plastic sheeting commonly used to protect against the elements, presents itself in such a vulnerability, that it in no way, could it prepare us for what has happened.
All the Air is a silent yet stark solace. It is a lull to give space to those who cannot breathe and a reminder for those that are. The slumped figure, it’s outlines erased and entropied further blurs the line of the air belonging to it, and the air belonging to us. Like invisibility lines in a comic strip, it shows us what we can’t see in an accessible way. In this way it allows us to make new connections, humanizing what’s at stake, it embodies our narcissism as we care for something we previously did not, now that it is in our image.