Marking Breath (2024)
Singapore
Sunrise to Sunset
5 April 2024, 7:03-19:11
Open wide symmetric architecture
Like lungs
Breathing
Warm wind on my skin
I breathe calmly
Morning sky clear open
My mind is empty
Breathing into copper
Breathing into being
A person walks by with a cleaning gear
The dirt away
Beginning the day, a new
New beginnings
Can we?
Students appear
I’m calm
Still
Singapore
My mind wanders
Last Marking Breath was in Haifa
Before the war
Time changes quickly
Francis comes walking
Marking breathing mountains
Inhalations exhalations
A girl takes place
She asks me a question
I say yes
She’s lost
In her art
I say little
Today is breathing
We breathe together
No talking
I advise her She asks me a last question
‘What has been your most important experience in life?’
Life itself ~ to breathe
My answer
She walks away
Being human is a balancing act
Liking disliking feeling good not good attractions to somethings to someone and the opposite to other and others
Life is a mystery sings Madonna
My teenage life
Every night falling into dreams
I dream
Living existence breathing beings’ human beings
Vanini is marking her breathing
Calmly we look at each other
The sound of birds and heavily traffic
Symphonic music
Time passes people passes breath passes
Tapping into foreverness marking
My mind
It goes ahead of me
I slow down
Who is I who is my mind
I smile
My human house
All the floors
The students – talk, dance by
Funny movements
Young lovers sit on the stair
Kiss
Softly laughing
Others look non-stop into their phones
This little machine
Connecting us
The world is open?
communication
inwards into our selves
Into our own innerness
Are people scared?
Their inside
Different floors to understand this life
An Ocean surfaces
The first meters where the light still reaches
Fishes, corals, turtles
Then the dark deep water where no light reaches
I go there mentally
To feel lost, on unknown territory
Knowing this is still me
I mark and we connect into breathing
The light is changing
Colors the sky
It’s warm
I feel thirsty
The people I know surround me
We breathe together
The sun has set in Singapore
Image credits:
Sophie Dupont, Marking Breath (2024) for In Situ, Performance as Exhibition, organised by Belarmino&Partners in collaboration with McNally School of Fine Arts, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore, 5 April 2024. Photography: Ken Cheong