A Path Through . . .

( Breath by Indira Kakabayeva-Solanik - found here ) “It happens that the air comes and goes, in and out, that an incessant rhythmic exchange takes place between outside and inside, interior and exterior, between the intimacy of our chest and the space of the world. It starts with our coming into the world, where we first use breath to cry out in our surprise and incomprehension, and will end at the instant when we will take our last breath, our last sigh, in which we will expire. Breathing is the perpetual refutation of solipsism in action, and of any thesis according to which our life is self-sufficient, or would moreover attempt to be so. At every moment, we depend on the ambient air, and if we can cease eating for a few weeks, or even drinking for a few days, our apnea cannot last for more than a few moments.” ~Jean-Louis Chrétien