From Emergence Magazine
“Where do you end, and the world begin?
“We imagine ourselves as sealed-off individuals, but we are inextricably embedded in a web of life. Our bodies are porous, suffused with the world around us, home to thousands of microscopic symbiotic inhabitants; with each breath, we exchange parts of ourselves with the wider world.
“We are intimately linked with trees through the respiration of the Earth. While invisible, this connection is ever-present: trees inhale our breath, and with the alchemy of sunlight return to us oxygen, which moves into our lungs, and courses from the heart outward to enter every cell in our bodies. In this eternal cycle, we find ourselves not separate from the world, but entirely infused with it.
“This week, step into an exchange of breath with a Capinuri tree in the Colombian Amazon rainforest. In this interactive experience from celebrated art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, digitized projections of oxygen and water vapor molecules, moving through trees and into mycorrhizal networks, are visualized in five-second cycles: the average pace of a human breath. We invite you to synchronize your own inhale and exhale with this larger rhythm to begin to feel the continuity between your body and that of the forest. Immersed in a soundscape of birdsong, moving water, and the music of insects, and guided by narration from acclaimed British actor Colin Salmon, find yourself flowing into the cycles of reciprocity between soil, tree, and sky.”
Link to the Colombian Amazon rainforest presentation
Be sure to turn the SOUND ON in the lower left part of the screen.