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 man, a woman 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
I’m a stranger in this place and yet confident
People confide in me.
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