Enter an atmosphere filled with complex systems assembled to form an alighted cloud. Irregular structures reminiscent of a geometric Weaire-Phelan structure of foam and soap bubbles act as an invitation to engage from diverse bearings, as mirrored planes reflect the sun’s rays in a play of light and shadow, where there is neither up nor down anymore, no inside or outside. Composed of habitat-like geometries reminiscent of Saraceno’s Cloud Cities, Spatial Echoes of Breath reveals the elemental properties that, through the very essence of our lives, seem to perpetually recede from view.

We are living in a moment of environmental crisis, defined by rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and the accelerated extinction of a growing number of species, especially invertebrates. Clouds are also disappearing, replaced by new clouds of toxic pollution particulates: ash, black carbon, organochlorine pesticides, sulfur dioxide—particles that populate what once was simply wind and rain, throwing into question the very fibre of our world. In reflection, reality is revealed: that the participant is inextricable from the surrounding environment in both cause and effect, bound in the participant’s vision in the mirror’s plane. They see themselves as part of this particular ensemble, as the lines of the structure help draw seemingly impossible connections—between cyanobacteria and PM2.5, spider/web and cosmic web. Held together in mutual tension, the installation’s structural allusions span scales from the micro to the macro. It is a web of reciprocal alliances, where if one thread were to move, the resulting vibration, reverberating across the whole structure, would produce a greater frequency than could be produced by one thread alone. Immersed in an upturned environment, the senses are challenged to reconsider and reflect on what has precedence in the contemporary world and why.