Art as the breath of life.  Joseph Morris makes the idea literal with “Serpentine Breath” from 2014.  Mesmerizing.

The “Intelligent Objects” show at Creative Arts Workshop is full of wonders that may be best experienced in person.  I’ll try to give you a sense here.

Across the gallery from the breathing fabric is “Breathing Water.”  I stood and watched and breathed in time with the water.  And I tried to imagine how Robin Mandel filmed this.

His “Red Giant” from 2015 is made of gold clubs, steel armature, and electrical components.  In the gallery, it looks like some kind of primordial, burning star.  Maybe you can see that in this shaky video.

Mandel’s chair-on-the-wall thing is just fun.

Robin Mandel, Unrealized Gain, 2015, wood, metal

The breeze would seem to move “Solar Particle Wind Chime” by Morris.  It uses “a data sonification system that pulls real time solar wind particle data from the Advanced Composition Explorer satellite.”  Wow.  I don’t know.  It’s looks as playful as a Calder mobile to me.

check out the shadows!

Good old fashioned breath-powered wind would move Susan Clinard’s mobiles.

Susan Clinard, Kinetic Figures, 2015, paper, wire

Literally, light as breath.

I’m passionate about Susan’s work, and Susan, and have written about her before.  Her “Filtering Noise” show at the DaSilva Gallery is glorious, and very, very quiet.

I really love this new work of hers.  Hands are an important motif for me, and I think Susan’s mixed media pieces are so loving, so sensitive.

Susan Clinard, Full Circle, 2016, wood, clay

There’s deep humanity in her work.  So much heart.  Her works breathe.  They break free of bonds.  They remind us to breathe.