Breathingin-Breathingout
is an abstract experiential work, that has been visualised
more as a meditative painting than as a motion picture.
The work is a fusion of an abstract imagery that has
been juxtaposed with a ‘found’ voice over
of the breathing technique of Pranayama from the classes
of the Yoga teacher- Eoen Finn.
The 5 minute experimental video, expresses the mutually
existing principles of life (breathing in & breathing
out) and death (not breathing in & not breathing
out) through the disjunction of the black visuals against
the serene sound of pranayama (breathing technique).
The
work was inspired from my confession of the guilt of
the death of two birds through my hands. Through the
9 months of shooting and simultaneous editing of my
frenzied eyes that represented the birds, gradually
transformed into a silent acceptance of the continual
strife between sustenance and destruction in life. I
have shot and performed for this video at the same time.
The foreseeing of what will be captured by the camera
before performing in the marked frame was an interesting
part of the process. The process required me to observe
my own body as an object of performance to be viewed
and captured in a frame without forgetting the emotions
and guilt attached to it from the past. The work aspires
to communicate a meditative feeling concluding in a
haiku that essentially life is all about breathing in
and breathing out.
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