Breath As One Connection

With a transparent plexiglass cover containing a circle shape that evokes the moon, Breath As One Connection is an artist book that talks about motherhood. Intentionally, the book was structurally thought to have nine exact signatures in order to portray the length of the stages of pregnancy. In each signature, a combination of transparent and opaque pages blend in a unique playful mixture of revealing and covering.

To simulate hair, fine delicate lines made out of graphite appear drawn on handmade beeswax paper in different shapes, which dance and tangle like threads that go from simple to complex. Using the element of the hair as the main motif throughout the book helps to metaphorically represent the material and spiritual connection between mother and child. The transparency and yellowish color of the beeswax pages reminds one of skin, creating a fleshy effect when layered on top of each other. They subtly allow visibility to the hand transferred text on the white pages in between, making them look trapped within the line drawings.

Originally written by the artist, the poem/text opens with the word “Inside” and closes with the word “Outside”, as if voiced by an unborn offspring from the womb during its stages of development.  Such words, like feel, matter, breath, fragments, moon, hair, and sheets, pop out during interaction while strongly enhancing the intricate narrative of a motherly interconnection.