b r e a t h - o b s e s s e d

The family of creatures I imagine most probably start with one feature and this can develop more over time. The emerging behavior depends on the physical interaction of the audience moving them around (playing with proximity and composition). The creatures can synchronize breathing patterns when they are in proximity. For example participant can align a calm creature with a hyperventilating creature to sooth it with their slow breaths.

Sometimes it only takes one to influence the other. At other times more than one creature needs to help and sooth the extreme anxious one. Or perhaps a different breathing strategy? Like a symphony of giggles to calm and sooth. This interplay depends on bonds, traits and a dash of randomness that develop over time.

As an artist it is important for me to venture into the unknown. If I already knew exactly what the end result would be, how it would look like and behave like, what's left to discover? Therefore changes during this preliminary research will be inevitable and desirable. By analyzing existing works and gathering what intrigues me, I aim to reactivate such elements into new creatures.The two species in In Love With the World adds to the work its complexity. One specie responds to the environment & participants. The other interacts only with the same species. I wonder what significant behavior emerges from such a parameter and what does it tell us about learning from otherness?