The first in a new series of works engaging with breath and recovery as both sites of physical transformation, and relational processes of wider social engagement.

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, bodies were left in a perpetual state of ‘held breath’. The longest non-war related global pause of the post-industrialist era, brought a combination of stillness, reflection, isolation, and a multitide of physical and emotional traumas.

This self-portrait captures an exhalation of breath in the last days of a COVID infection; an isolated image, captured digitally, and shared online on the artist’s social media pages.