Jonathon Harris

Master of Contemporary Art

The Dissemblance of Breath continues my exploration of how we respond to grief. Utilising performance, sound, digital imagery and installation, the work is placed between the in-breath and the out-breath. In readiness for the final breath.

Performed across the entirety of the 2022 VCA Art show, The Dissemblance of Breath invites the viewer to meditate on their own life, memories of themselves and others as salt is swept across the space; away from a mass of torn material, formed by metaphorical wounds that have been stitched up, and yet leave a scar of the past. This is at once a meditation and a frenetic action to keep everything contained and as it was. An impossible task as each day begins.