White Breath
White Breath (bond), 2000
mirrored wardrobe doors and correction fluid, plus reflected light
each panel: 230 x 120 x 5cm / light: variable dimensions
West Space Inc.
collection of the artist
White Breath
Materials: correction fluid and mirrors, sometimes with a light component.
The White Breath mirror-correction works have taken various forms: discrete pieces (Performance Anxiety, 2004); site-specific and ephemeral interventions (A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 2005); and large installations (White Breath (bond), 2000). Two large pairs of works were made in 2009: Respiro Bianco (non ho sonno) for the exhibition Lo Sguardo di Giano at the American Academy in Rome and White Breath (Passenger) which currently features in Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane / Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University / Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (2009-10).
A new series of three dozen discretely-sized mirror works formed the recent exhibition The Waste of Breath at Lights Projects, Melbourne.
The Waste of Breath, 2008-10
poured and blown correction fluid on mirror
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Links to some White Breath pages on the website:
Mirror Mirror: Then and Now, 2009-10
A Short Ride in a Fast Machine, 2005
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White Breath (untitled), 2007
mirror and correction fluid
75 x 55cm
collection of the artist
(above and below)
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Face to calm eye touch close all calm all white all gone from mind.
Samuel Beckett
I live only here, between your eyes and you,
But I live in your world. What do I do?
- Collect no interest - otherwise what I can;
Above all I am not that staring man.
Elizabeth Bishop