Archive for the 'Cultivating Life' Category

the black breath

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

I was playing with some of the connectors I have bought to construct my ‘breath dress’ with late last night and, as you do, I stuck them up my nose. They looked quite funny – like two breathing tusks sticking out of my nostrils. Then I thought that maybe they might be some kind of [...]

structural growth

Friday, July 27th, 2007

As part of the Biospatial Workshop this semester, I have been constructing a ‘biotent’ to enable us to conduct messy biological projects and experiments inside the office building environment of the Design Institute. Funnily enough, I think the tent itself, which is connected to the power and channels air, through the ceiling, appears like an [...]

breath capture

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I have been developing on the breath as waste idea that I touched on a few months back. See here. I found a resuscitation mask that had a unidirectional valve set-up for isolating the in and out breaths so that it might be possible to wear a breath collecting apparatus and breathe normally through nose [...]