Sean Justice - Harbor, New York [dark version](3 breaths) 2011

The Breathing Pictures are made from multiple yet discrete camera exposures (i.e, not time exposures) taken from an entire scene (i.e., not fragments of a scene). The frames are taken while I am standing still—on a street corner, at an airport, by the harbor—and photographing while breathing—one breath, two breaths. This project explores the experience of the here and now. I am interested in the experience of perception—that is, I want to draw out the brief moment of wakefulness that occurs when I notice and am truly present in the world. In that brief instant there’s a participation with the world, a thorough overlap of multiple ways of being conscious. The pictures are animated in a web browser with html/css code. The image submitted here is visible in the "light version" on my website.